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Inspirational Quotes

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

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

Nelson Mandela

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Tommy Lasorda

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

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

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

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mary MacCracken

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

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

Winston Churchill

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

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

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller