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Inspirational Quotes

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

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

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

Anthony Robbins

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

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

John Wooden

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ella Williams

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

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

Winston Churchill

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

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

Jim Rohn

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

Unknown

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

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

Danny Kaye

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

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

Art Linkletter

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

St. Francis De Sales

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

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

Ronald Reagan

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller