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Inspirational Quotes

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

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

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

George Catlin

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Henry David Thoreau

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The show must go on.

Proverb

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

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

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Margaret Thatcher

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

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

Winston Churchill

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dennis Waitley

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

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

Mark Twain

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

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

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

Mark Twain

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

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

Gail Sheehy

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone