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Inspirational Quotes

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Zig Ziglar

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

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

Anonymous

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

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

Confucius

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter

Aristotle

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

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

Carl Jung

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

Winston Churchill

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

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

Mark Victor Hansen

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

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.

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson