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Inspirational Quotes

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes

Zig Ziglar

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

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

Galileo Galilei

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

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

Plato

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.

Martin Buber

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

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

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

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

Swami Vivekananda

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes

Earl Nightingale

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Samuel Butler

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

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

Abraham Lincoln

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

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

Epictetus

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill