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Inspirational Quotes

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.

William B. Given, Jr.

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

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

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

Donald Trump

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

Proverb

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

Michael Johnson

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

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

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

Charles M. Schwab

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Mark Twain

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

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

Anonymous

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

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

Swami Vivekananda

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

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

Abraham Lincoln

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

W.C Fields

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

Seneca

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Robert Schuller

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

George Eliot