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Inspirational Quotes

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

Joe Paterno

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Stephen Covey

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.

Swami Vivekananda

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

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

Washington Irving

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

Robert F. Kennedy

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Tom Peters

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

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

St. Francis De Sales

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

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

Dale Carnegie

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

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

Michael Johnson

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Mark Twain

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Winston Churchill

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

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

Arnold Glasgow