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Inspirational Quotes

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Anonymous

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

Thomas Edison

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

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

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

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Confucius

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

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

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

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

Helen Keller

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

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

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

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

Napoleon Hill

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert Half

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Whatever it takes !

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

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

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

James Dean

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

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

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

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

William Shakespeare