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Inspirational Quotes

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

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

Swami Vivekananda

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

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

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

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

Anthony Robbins

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

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?

W. Clement Stone

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

Joe Flacco

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

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

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

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

Anthony Robbins

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas Edison

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

Mahatma Gandhi

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

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

Abraham Lincoln

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki