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Inspirational Quotes

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

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

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Zig Ziglar

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

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?

Sydney Harris

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Alfred Whitefield

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Winston Churchill

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

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

Anonymous

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

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

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

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

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

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

Zig Ziglar

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

Aristotle

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

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

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

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

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

Francis Bacon

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

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.

Karl Jaspers

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

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

Ovid

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous