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Inspirational Quotes

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?

John P. Strelecky

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

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

Larry the Cable Guy

Be Here Now.

Ram Dass

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

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

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

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

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Stephen Covey

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

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

Mark Victor Hansen

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

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

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

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

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

Robert Frost

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Swami Vivekananda

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.

Abraham Maslow

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

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

Pat Riley

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

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