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Inspirational Quotes

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

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

Confucius

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

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

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

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

Samuel Butler

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Danny Kaye

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

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

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

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

Thomas Jefferson

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Embrace that small things lead to big things.

John P. Strelecky

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

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

A. P. Gouthey

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

George Catlin

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

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

Tony Dorsett

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.

Swami Vivekananda

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

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

Booker T. Washington

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb