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Inspirational Quotes

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

Nancy Banks-Smith

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

Anonymous

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

Tony Dorsett

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

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

William Yeats

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

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

Robert Half

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".

Brian Tracy

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

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

Albert Einstein

In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.

Karl Jaspers

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Anonymous

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

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

Ronald Reagan

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

Unknown

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

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

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

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

Mark Victor Hansen

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

Attitude determines altitude.

Anonymous

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

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

Zig Ziglar

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never Quit.

Unknown

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson