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Inspirational Quotes

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.

William B. Given, Jr.

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

Albert Einstein

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

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

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Langston Hughes

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Harvey Mackay

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

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

Ovid

All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.

William James

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Kahlil Gibran

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

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

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

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

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

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

Robert Half

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mother Teresa

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei