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Inspirational Quotes

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

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

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anthony Robbins

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

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

Les Brown

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

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

John C. Maxwell

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

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

Ovid

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

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

Colin Powell

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

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

John Wooden

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

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.

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda