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Inspirational Quotes

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Winston Churchill

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

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

Stan Smith

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

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

Calvin Coolidge

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

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

Jim Rohn

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

How far you go in life depends on you 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

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

Robert Schuller

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

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

Michael Johnson

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

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

Buckminster Fuller