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Inspirational Quotes

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Joan Baez

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

W. Somerset Manghan

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

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

Plutarch

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

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

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

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

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

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

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Anonymous

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

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

Horace

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

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

Jim Rohn

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

W.C Fields

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

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

Paul Sweeney

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes

Brian Tracy

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

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

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

Keep away from small 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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Robert H. Schuller