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Inspirational Quotes

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

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

Walter Winchell

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

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

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

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

Stephen Covey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

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

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

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

Mark Twain

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

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

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

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.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

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

Unattributed

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

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

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Anthony Robbins

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

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

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

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

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

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl