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Inspirational Quotes

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

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

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

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

William Yeats

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

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

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

William A. Ward

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

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

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Better late than never.

Proverb

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

Harvey Mackay

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Dennis Waitley

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

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

Napoleon Hill

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

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

William B. Sprague

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Never complain about what you permit.

Mike Murdock

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Saudi Arabian Proverb

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

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

Winston Churchill

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

Karl Jaspers

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison