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Inspirational Quotes

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

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

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

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

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas Edison

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

Norman Vincent Peale

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

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

Unknown

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

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

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes

Thomas Edison

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes

Zig Ziglar

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

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 cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

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

Mary Norton Gordon

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

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

Tom Hopkins

Anything is possible.

Unknown

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Donald Curtis

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

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

Harold Hill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

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

Canary Island Proverb

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Carl Jung

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

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

Thomas Edison

Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.

Christy Borgeld

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

James Allen

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Douglas MacArthur