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Inspirational Quotes

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

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

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

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

Abraham Lincoln

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

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 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

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

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

Viktor Frankl

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas Edison

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

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

Mother Teresa

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

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

Randolph Ray

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

Edgar Allan Poe

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.

Martin Buber

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

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

J. Richard Clarke

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

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

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

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

Henry Miller

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Yogi Berra

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie