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Inspirational Quotes

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

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

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

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 help at all.

Dale Carnegie

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

The Supremes

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes

Zig Ziglar

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

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

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

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

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

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

Dick Gregory

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

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

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Emmanuel Teney

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Stephen Covey

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

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

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

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

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

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

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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Anonymous

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

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

Anonymous

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton