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Inspirational Quotes

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

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

Thomas Edison

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

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

Winston Churchill

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

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

Anonymous

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

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

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

W. Clement Stone

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Aesop

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

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

Henri Nouwen

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

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

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

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

Steven Covey

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Henry Miller

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Willie Mays

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

Anonymous

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb