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Inspirational Quotes

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Eden Phillpotts

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Stephen Covey

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

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

David Bly

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Elbert Hubbard

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Thomas Edison

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Martha Washington

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

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

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

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

William Faulkner

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

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

Confucius

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

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

Marianne Williamson

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

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

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

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