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Inspirational Quotes

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

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

Abraham Lincoln

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Samuel Butler

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Ghanaian Proverb

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Anonymous

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

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

Thomas Edison

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

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

Maya Angelou

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

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

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

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

Abraham Lincoln

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

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

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