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Inspirational Quotes

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

Dale Carnegie

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

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

Albert Einstein

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

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

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

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

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

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

Harvey Mackay

But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

Karl Jaspers

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

William Faulkner

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

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

Anatole France

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

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

Burton Hills

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda