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Inspirational Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes

Earl Nightingale

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Henry Ford

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

Thomas Edison

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

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

Epictetus

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

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

Christy Borgeld

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

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

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K