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Inspirational Quotes

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

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

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

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

David Thomas

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

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

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

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

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Winston Churchill

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

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

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin