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Inspirational Quotes

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

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

Swami Vivekananda

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

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

Earl Nightingale

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

James Allen

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

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

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

Helen Keller

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

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

Walter Winchell

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

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

Alfred Whitefield

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Thomas Jefferson

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

If you would create something, you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

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 comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Thomas Edison

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

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

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

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

Embrace that small things lead to big things.

John P. Strelecky

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.

Martin Buber

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Buddha

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan