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Inspirational Quotes

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

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

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

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.

Swami Vivekananda

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Shakespeare

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Art Linkletter

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

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

Dennis Waitley

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

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

F.M. Hubbard

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

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

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous