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Inspirational Quotes

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.

Emma Lazarus

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Dennis Waitley

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie