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Inspirational Quotes

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

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

Conrad Hilton

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Vince Lombardi

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

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Joshua J. Marine

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

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

Aristotle

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

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

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

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

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

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

Ed Parker

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

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

Satchel Paige

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

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

Stephen Covey

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

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

David McCullough Reason

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

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

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

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

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

W. Clement Stone

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

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

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

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

Abraham Lincoln

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

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

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale