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Inspirational Quotes

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

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

Margaret Thatcher

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

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

Will Rogers

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Mark Twain

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.

William B. Given, Jr.

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

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

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

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

Harold Hulbert

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

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

Viktor Frankl

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

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

Marilyn Ferguson

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

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

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

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

Albert Einstein

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

Anonymous

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb