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Inspirational Quotes

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

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

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Robert Frost

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

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

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

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

W. Clement Stone

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

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

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

Anthony Robbins

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Stephen Covey

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

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

Albert Einstein

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

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

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Harvey Mackay

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

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

Anonymous

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton