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Inspirational Quotes

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

Annie Dillard

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

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

Anthony Robbins

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

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

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon Johnson

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Mark Twain

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

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

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

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

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

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

Douglas MacArthur

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

Anthony Robbins

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

Do what you love and the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Unattributed

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

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

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Francis Bacon

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

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

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

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

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Les Hewitt