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Inspirational Quotes

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Albert Einstein

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

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.

Swami Vivekananda

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

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

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Andy Warhol

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

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

Michael Jordan

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

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

Unattributed

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

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

Isaac Bashevis

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

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

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

Swami Vivekananda

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

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

Thomas J. Watson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

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

James Allen

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

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

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau