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Inspirational Quotes

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

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

Thomas Carlyle

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

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

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Anonymous

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

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

Aldous Huxley

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

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

Robert Half

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

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

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

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

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.

Steve Walton

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

Better late than never.

Proverb

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

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

Colin Powell

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Tom Hannah

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington