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Inspirational Quotes

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

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

Dan Stanford

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

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

Burton Hills

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

Heraclitus

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

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

Steven Covey

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

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

Michael Johnson

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

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

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

Joseph Campbell

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.

Bruce Lee

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Thomas Edison

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

Ann Landers

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

Abigail Van Buren

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

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

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?

Josh Hinds

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

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

Christy Borgeld

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda