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Inspirational Quotes

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

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

William Osler

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

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

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

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

Henry Miller

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

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Albert Einstein

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

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

Winston Churchill

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

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

Thomas Jefferson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

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

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

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

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

Swami Vivekananda

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda