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Inspirational Quotes

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

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

Gerald J. Simmons

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

The show must go on.

Proverb

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.

Karl Jaspers

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

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

Earl Nightingale

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

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

Dale Carnegie

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

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

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

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

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

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

Winston Churchill

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge