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Inspirational Quotes

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

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

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

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

William Shedd

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Helice Bridges

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

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

Spanish Proverb

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

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

Yusuf Tara

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

James Allen

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

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

William Shakespeare

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

But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

Karl Jaspers

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

E.M. Kelly

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

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

Abraham Lincoln

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

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

Thomas Edison

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

Samuel Johnson

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Dale Carnegie