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Inspirational Quotes

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

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

Anonymous

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Robert H. Schuller

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

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

Brigham Young

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

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

George Eliot

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

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

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

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

Abraham Lincoln

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

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

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.

Abraham Maslow

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

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

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

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

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Harvey Mackay

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert