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Inspirational Quotes

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

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

Swami Vivekananda

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

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

Robert H. Schuller

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Susan Taylor

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

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

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

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

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

Abraham Lincoln

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.

Greek Proverb

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Zig Ziglar

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Samuel Butler

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

Unattributed

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

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

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins