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Inspirational Quotes

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

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

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

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

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

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

Jesus

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harold Hill

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

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

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb

You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.

Bruce Lee

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Bernard Shaw

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

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

W. Clement Stone

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.

Nolan Bushnell

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

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

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

Aristotle

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb