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Inspirational Quotes

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

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

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

Earl Nightingale

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

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

Seize the day.

Unknown

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.

Steve Walton

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

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

Danny Kaye

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Confucius

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

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

So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.

Bruce Lee

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.

John P. Strelecky

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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

You create your reality.

Unknown

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

Anything is possible.

Unknown

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

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

Robert H. Schuller

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle