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Inspirational Quotes

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Bill Cosby

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

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

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

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

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

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

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.

Karl Jaspers

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

Seneca

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Norman Vincent Peale

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

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 truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jakob Dylan

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

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

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

Anonymous

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

A. P. Gouthey

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller