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Inspirational Quotes

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

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

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

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

Zig Ziglar

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

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

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

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

Martha Washington

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

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

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

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

Harriet Rubin

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

Joe Flacco

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

The Supremes

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

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

Robert H. Schuller

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

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

Zig Ziglar

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Colin Powell

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

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

Denis Healey