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Inspirational Quotes

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

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

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

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

Anonymous

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

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

Ovid

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

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

W.C Fields

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

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

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mingjiao

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

Gardner Murphy

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

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

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

Helen Keller

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

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

Bible

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey