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Inspirational Quotes

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

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

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

Danny Kaye

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

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

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

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

Charles F. Kettering

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

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

Isaac Newton

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

Anonymous

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

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

Confucius

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

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

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

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

Plato

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

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

Anonymous

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Harrison Ford

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

George Catlin

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

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

William James

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

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

Robert Half

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda