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Inspirational Quotes

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

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

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

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.

John P. Strelecky

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

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 principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

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

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

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

George Eliot

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Zig Ziglar

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

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

Abraham Lincoln

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

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

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

Margaret Mead

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

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

Epictetus

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

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

Confucius

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.

Tom Clancy

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

Change comes from within.

Unknown

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

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison