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Inspirational Quotes

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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

Confucius

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

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

Robert H. Schuller

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

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

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

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

Abraham Lincoln

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

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

Thomas Jefferson

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

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.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

Gardner Murphy

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

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

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

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

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

Sandra Swinney

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jakob Dylan

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Albert Einstein

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy