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Inspirational Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

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

Paul Sweeney

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The show must go on.

Proverb

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.

Unknown

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

E. E. Hale

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

Dennis Waitley

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Napoleon Hill

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

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

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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

Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

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

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Seneca

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Abraham Lincoln

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Kahlil Gibran

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Anthony Robbins

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown