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Inspirational Quotes

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

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

Ovid

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

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

Napoleon Hill

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Colin Powell

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

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

Henry David Thoreau

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

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

Jim Rohn

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas Jefferson

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

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

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

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

Henry Ford

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

Joe Paterno

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

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

Calvin Coolidge

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Anonymous

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Desmond Tutu

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

Nelson Mandela

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

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

Winston Churchill

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins