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Inspirational Quotes

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.

Karl Jaspers

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Rollo May

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

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

John Lennon

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

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

Napoleon Hill

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

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

Anonymous

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

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

Swami Vivekananda

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

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

John F. Kennedy

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

Anonymous

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Zig Ziglar

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes

Thomas Edison

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

George Catlin

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

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

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

Norman Vincent Peale

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter

Aristotle