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Inspirational Quotes

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

Stan Smith

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

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

J. Petit Senn

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

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

Thomas Jefferson

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

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

Assyrian Proverb

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

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

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

Chinese Proverb

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

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

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

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

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.

Tom Clancy

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

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Joe Paterno

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

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

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Dennis Waitley

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

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 "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

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

Anonymous

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

If you would create something, you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

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

Abraham Lincoln

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes