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Inspirational Quotes

Seize the day.

Unknown

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

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

John Lennon

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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

John Churton Collins

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

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

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

Winston Churchill

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes

Brian Tracy

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

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

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

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

Napoleon Hill

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

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.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

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

Samuel Johnson

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

W. Clement Stone

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

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

Alfred Whitefield

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

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

Jim Ryun

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

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

Albert Einstein

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

La Rochefoucauld