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Inspirational Quotes

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

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

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

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

Matthew 5:15

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

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

Dennis Waitley

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?

John P. Strelecky

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

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

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas Edison

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

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

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

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

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

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

Earl Nightingale

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

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

Thomas Jefferson

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

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

Samuel Coleridge

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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