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Inspirational Quotes

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Calvin Coolidge

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

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

Unknown

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

George Catlin

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

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

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

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

Coach K

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.

Bruce Lee

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

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

Cullen Hightower

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

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

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

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

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin