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Inspirational Quotes

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

W. Clement Stone

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

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

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

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

Robert F. Kennedy

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

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

Stephen Covey

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

Gardner Murphy

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Abraham Lincoln

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

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

Larry the Cable Guy

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harold Hill

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

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

Mark Victor Hansen

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

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

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

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

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

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

George Eliot

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

Thomas Edison

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

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

Dale Carnegie

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

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

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

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

Lee Iacocca

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda