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Inspirational Quotes

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

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

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

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

Zig Ziglar

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

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

Robert H. Schuller

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

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

Thomas Henry Huxley

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

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 difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

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

The show must go on.

Proverb

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

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

Jim Rohn

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

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

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

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.

Tom Hannah

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Mark Twain

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

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

Napoleon Hill

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

W. R. Inge

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

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