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Inspirational Quotes

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

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

Anonymous

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Harold Hulbert

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Anthony Robbins

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.

German Proverb

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

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

John Stuart Mill

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.

Tom Clancy

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Douglas MacArthur

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

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

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

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

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

Jim Rohn

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

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

Lou Holtz

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Jonathan Winters

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

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

William Ellery Channing

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Will Rogers

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

Anonymous

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar