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Inspirational Quotes

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

Samuel Johnson

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

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

Isaac Newton

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

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

Henry Ford

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

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

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

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

Yogi Berra

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

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

Winston Churchill

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.

Swami Vivekananda

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas Edison

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

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

Susan Taylor

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.

Bruce Lee

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .

John Greenleaf Whittier

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher