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Inspirational Quotes

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

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

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

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

Washington Irving

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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

Carl Jung

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

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

Confucius

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

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

Conrad Hilton

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

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

Anonymous

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

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

Winston Churchill

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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

Swami Vivekananda

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Jerome Cummings

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half