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Inspirational Quotes

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

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

John Wooden

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

Thomas Edison

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

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

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Hunker down.

Unknown

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

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

Prentice

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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 is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Albert Einstein

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

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

Dalai Lama

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never say die.

Proverb

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

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

Mark Victor Hansen

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas