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Inspirational Quotes

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

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

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

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

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Know thyself.

Socrates

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

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

William Shakespeare

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

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

Earl Nightingale

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.

Bruce Lee

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

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

Buckminster Fuller

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

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

Dale Carnegie

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

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

Napoleon Hill

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

George Catlin

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Francis Bacon

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy