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Inspirational Quotes

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Bernard Haldane

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

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

Bernard M. Baruch

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Su Shi

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

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

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

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

Buckminster Fuller

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

Unknown

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

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

J. Richard Clarke

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Dennis Waitley

Change comes from within.

Unknown

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

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

Claudia Black

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

E. Joseph Cossman

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Albert Einstein

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

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

Charles F. Kettering

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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

Winston Churchill

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller