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Inspirational Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Unknown

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

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

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

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

Zen Proverb

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

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

Joe Flacco

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

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

Albert Einstein

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Robert H. Schuller

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Robert H. Schuller

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

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

P. T. Barnum

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

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

Margaret B. Runbeck

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill