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Inspirational Quotes

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

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

Annie Dillard

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

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

Stan Smith

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

Attitude determines altitude.

Anonymous

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

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

Anonymous

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

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

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

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

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

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

St. Francis De Sales

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Dale Carnegie

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

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

Robert Half

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

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

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

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

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

Dennis Waitley

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

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

Maya Angelou

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

Persian Proverb

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

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

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Mark Victor Hansen

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes

Thomas Jefferson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell