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Inspirational Quotes

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

Ayn Rand

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

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

Stephen Covey

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Mark Twain

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

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

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

William A. Ward

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

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

Tony Dorsett

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

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

Molly McDonald

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Anonymous

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

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

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Norman Vincent Peale

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford