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Inspirational Quotes

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

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

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Ghanaian Proverb

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

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

Thomas Edison

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Dennis Waitley

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

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

Hedy Lamarr

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

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

Oprah Winfrey

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dennis Waitley

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

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

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

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

Burton Hills

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

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

Earl Nightingale

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

W. Clement Stone

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Anything is possible.

Unknown

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

Zen Proverb

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

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

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman