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Inspirational Quotes

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

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

Mingjiao

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

George Catlin

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

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

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Hunker down.

Unknown

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

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

Unattributed

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

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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

Michael Johnson

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Tommy Lasorda

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

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

Annie Dillard

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Paul Tillich

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Change comes from within.

Unknown

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

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

Anthony Robbins

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

Helen Keller

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

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

Seneca

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Unknown

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

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.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn