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Inspirational Quotes

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

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

Earl Nightingale

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

Swami Vivekananda

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success is a journey not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

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

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".

Norman Vincent Peale

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .

John Greenleaf Whittier

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

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

Winston Churchill

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Kahlil Gibran

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.

Bruce Lee

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.

Swami Vivekananda

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas J. Watson

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

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

Confucius

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

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

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

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

T.S. Eliot

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

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

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K