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Inspirational Quotes

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

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

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Swami Vivekananda

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Chinese Proverb

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

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

Winston Churchill

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

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

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Unknown

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

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

Albert Schweitzer

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.

German Proverb

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.

William Wordsworth

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

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill