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Inspirational Quotes

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

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

William James

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

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

Dale Carnegie

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

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

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

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

Isaac Asimov

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

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

Winston Churchill

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Zig Ziglar

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

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

Matthew 5:15

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

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dennis Waitley

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

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

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

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill