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Inspirational Quotes

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Don't quit.

Unknown

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

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

Henry David Thoreau

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

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

Tony Dorsett

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

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

William Faulkner

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

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

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

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

Dale Carnegie

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.

George Bernard Shaw

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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