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Inspirational Quotes

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

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

Mingjiao

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Thomas Jefferson

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

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

Thomas Edison

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

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

Mother Teresa

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

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

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

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

Aristotle

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

Buckminster Fuller

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Winston Churchill

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Blaise Pascal

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

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

Abraham Lincoln

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".

Brian Tracy

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

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

Danny Kaye

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Napoleon Hill

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Samuel Johnson

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

For with god all things are possible.

Bible