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Inspirational Quotes

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Thomas Dewar

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

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

Colin Powell

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

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

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

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

William Arthur Ward

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh 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

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

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

Hedy Lamarr

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

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

Japanese Proverb

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

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

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

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

Paul Tillich

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi