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Inspirational Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brian Tracy

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

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

Lawrence LeShan

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

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

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

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

Albert Einstein

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

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

Anthony Robbins

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

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

Albert Einstein

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert H. Schuller

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

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

Winston Churchill

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

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

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

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

Deborah Whipp

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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

Anonymous

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

Do what you love and the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.

William James

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

Thomas Jefferson

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda