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Inspirational Quotes

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Know thyself.

Socrates

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Anonymous

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.

Anthony Robbins

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

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

Winston Churchill

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

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

Michel de Montaigne

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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

Nelson Mandela

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

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

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

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

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

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

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

Confucius

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.

Joe Flacco

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

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

Carrie Fisher

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

Michael Johnson

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.

Swami Vivekananda

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

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

John S. Hinds

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

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

George Bernard Shaw

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Unknown

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Never say die.

Proverb

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

The show must go on.

Proverb