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Inspirational Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.

John P. Strelecky

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Unattributed

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Marilyn Ferguson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

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

Colin Powell

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

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

Japanese Proverb

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

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

Albert Einstein

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

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

Unknown

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

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

Anonymous

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

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

John P. Strelecky

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

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

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

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

Assyrian Proverb

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

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

Stephen Covey

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

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

Joe Namath

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare