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Inspirational Quotes

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."

Joe Flacco

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Anthony Robbins

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

A. P. Gouthey

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

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

Unattributed

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

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

Dale Carnegie

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

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

W. Clement Stone

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rollo May

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach