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Inspirational Quotes

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

Thomas Edison

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren Bennis

Never say die.

Proverb

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

Anonymous

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

Confucius

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

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

Abraham Lincoln

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.

Hubert Bonner

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better late than never.

Proverb

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

Anonymous

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

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

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

Albert Einstein

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

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

Winston Churchill

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Zig Ziglar

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

Do what you love and the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

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

Ovid

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Confucius

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

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

Colin Powell

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Bruce Lee

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

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

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

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

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey