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Inspirational Quotes

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

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

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

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

Harvey Mackay

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

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

Colin Powell

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

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

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

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

George Bernard Shaw

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Dennis Waitley

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Hedy Lamarr

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

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

Anthony Dalla Villa

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

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

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

Keep away from 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

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Edison

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

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

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

John Davidson Rockefeller

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

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 you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

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

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln