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Inspirational Quotes

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

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

Mike Wickett

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

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

Anonymous

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Kahlil Gibran

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

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

Earl Nightingale

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

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

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

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

John Quincy Adams

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

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

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

Harvey Mackay

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

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

Paul Tillich

Anything is possible.

Unknown

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

Warren G. Bennis

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

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

Swami Vivekananda

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

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

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Winston Churchill

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson