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Inspirational Quotes

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

Stephen Covey

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.

Unknown

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

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

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

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

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

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

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

Louis L. Mann

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Anonymous

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

It's never too late.

Unknown

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

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

Abraham Lincoln

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

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

Nelson Mandela

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

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

Walter Winchell

Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?

Robert Half

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

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

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anthony Robbins

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky