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Inspirational Quotes

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

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Swami Vivekananda

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

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

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Anonymous

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

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

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?

Diogenes

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

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

Stan Smith

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe