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Inspirational Quotes

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

It's never too late.

Unknown

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

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

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

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

John F. Kennedy

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Wooden

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

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

Winston Churchill

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Christy Borgeld

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

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

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

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

Ashley E. Hyder

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

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

Swami Vivekananda

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

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

Anonymous

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

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

Arthur Ashe

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Thomas Edison

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Margaret Mead

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale