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Inspirational Quotes

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

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

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

Robert Half

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

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

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

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

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

Wayne Gretzky

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

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

George DeVack

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

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

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

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

Ray Lyman Wilbur

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Mueller

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

Peter Davies

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Jonathan Winters

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

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

Roger Smith

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.

Karl Jaspers

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

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

Anonymous

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

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

Robert H. Schuller

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.

Steve Walton

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

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

Oprah Winfrey

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Anonymous

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

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

Arnold Glasgow