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Inspirational Quotes

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

Kahlil Gibran

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

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

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Anonymous

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

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

James Allen

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

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Mueller

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Thomas Edison

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

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

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

Anonymous

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

Anthony Robbins

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

Ashley E. Hyder

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Stephen Covey

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Stephen Covey

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Confucius

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

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

The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin