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Inspirational Quotes

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

It's never too late.

Unknown

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes

Napoleon Hill

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

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

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

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

Unknown

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

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

Joseph Joubert

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

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

Rene Descartes

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brian Tracy

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

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

Anonymous

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Stephen Covey

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

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

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

Aldous Huxley

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

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

David McCullough Reason

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

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

Abraham Lincoln

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.

Joe Flacco

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale