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Inspirational Quotes

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

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

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

Know thyself.

Socrates

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

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

Unknown

Better late than never.

Proverb

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

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

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

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

John Lennon

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

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

Unknown

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

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

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

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

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

David McCullough Reason

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.

Swami Vivekananda

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte