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Inspirational Quotes

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

W. Somerset Manghan

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

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

Swami Vivekananda

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.

Joe Flacco

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harold Hill

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France