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Inspirational Quotes

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

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

Bill Cosby

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Abraham Lincoln

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

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

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

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

H. H. Vreeland

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

Anonymous

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

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

William Ellery Channing

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Martha Washington

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

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

Anthony Robbins

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

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

Douglas MacArthur

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

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within

Earl Nightingale

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

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

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

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

Geri Weitzman

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Ovid

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

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

Peter

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill