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Inspirational Quotes

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

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

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.

Bruce Lee

Never say die.

Proverb

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

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

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

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

Josh Billings

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !

Albert Einstein

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

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

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb