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Inspirational Quotes

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Nader

You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.

Tom Hannah

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.

Hubert Bonner

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Ghanaian Proverb

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

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

William Arthur Ward

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

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

J. Petit Senn

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

Michel de Montaigne

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes

Napoleon Hill

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

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

Anonymous

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

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

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

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

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

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

William Cowper

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

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

Hasidic Proverb

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in

Swami Vivekananda

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

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

Epictetus

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

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

Burton Hills

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Harvey Mackay

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius