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Inspirational Quotes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Thomas Edison

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

William J.H

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

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

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

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

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

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

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

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

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

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

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

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

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

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

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

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.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

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

Napolean Hill

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart