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Inspirational Quotes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

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

Thomas Edison

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

George DeVack

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

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

Confucius

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian 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

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

It's never too late.

Unknown

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

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

Katherine Graham

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

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

Jim Rohn

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

Arnold Glasgow

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

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

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Judith Martin

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.

William James

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.

Swami Vivekananda

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn