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Inspirational Quotes

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

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

Unknown

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Winston Churchill

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

Dennis Waitley

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Seize the day.

Unknown

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

Know thyself.

Socrates

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

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

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

Swami Vivekananda

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

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

Jean Sibelius

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

George Catlin

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

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Proverb

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

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 comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

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

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

Anonymous

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown