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Inspirational Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

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

Albert Einstein

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

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

Swami Vivekananda

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.

Nolan Bushnell

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Know thyself.

Socrates

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

Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.

Washington Irving

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

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

Michael Johnson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

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.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

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

Jesus

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

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

Abraham Lincoln

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

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

William A. Ward

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -

Walt Disney

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

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

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

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