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Inspirational Quotes

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

Yogi Berra

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

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

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

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

Winston Churchill

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

English Proverb

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

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

Thomas Edison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

French Proverb

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Henry David Thoreau

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Dennis Waitley

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

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

William Shedd

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.

Martin Buber

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Gerald J. Simmons

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

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

Abraham Lincoln

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Napoleon Hill

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

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

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

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

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey