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Inspirational Quotes

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

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 are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

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

Napoleon Hill

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Bill Blackman

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

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 miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

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

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.

George Bernard Shaw

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

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

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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

Earl Nightingale

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Thomas Edison

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

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

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving