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Inspirational Quotes

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Helen Keller

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

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

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

Carl Jung

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

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

Anonymous

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

Douglas Jerrold

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

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

Anonymous

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Seneca

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

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

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

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

Baiyun

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Anonymous

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan