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Inspirational Quotes

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Napoleon Hill

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

Abraham Lincoln

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Elbert Hubbard

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

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

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

St. Clement

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

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

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

George Eliot

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Anonymous

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

Thomas Edison

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Anonymous

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

If you would create something, you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within

Earl Nightingale

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

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

Annie Dillard

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

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

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson