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Inspirational Quotes

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

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

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

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 can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

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

Winston Churchill

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

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

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

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

Shelley Long

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

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

Napoleon Hill

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

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

Swami Vivekananda

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

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

Brian Weir

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

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

Matthew 5:9

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

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

Publius Terence

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield