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Inspirational Quotes

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Mary Norton Gordon

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

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

Aristotle

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

David Burns

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

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

Dennis Waitley

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

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

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

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

Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.

Bruce Lee

Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.

Abraham Maslow

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

Anonymous

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

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 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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.

Joe Flacco

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within

Earl Nightingale

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

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

Danny Thomas

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain