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Inspirational Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

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

Vince Lombardi

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Channing Pollock

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

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

Earl Nightingale

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

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

Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

Plato

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

Mohammed

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

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

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Robert Schuller

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.

W. Mitchell

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mark Twain

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Norman Vincent Peale

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Peter F. Drucker

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

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

Tony Dorsett

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Anonymous

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Levell Edwards

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow