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Inspirational Quotes

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

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

W. Clement Stone

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

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

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

Aldous Huxley

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

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

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

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

Abraham Lincoln

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Kahlil Gibran

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

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

Abraham Lincoln

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

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

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

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

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

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

Tom Hannah

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

Joshua J. Marine

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Ralph Nader

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

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

Anonymous

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

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

Mingjiao

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

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

John Lennon

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

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

Robert H. Schuller