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Inspirational Quotes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

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

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

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

Thomas Carlyle

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

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

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

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

Henry Van Dyke

Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.

Abraham Maslow

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.

Martin Buber

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Stephen Covey

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

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

Mike Wickett

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Elbert Hubbard

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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

Winston Churchill

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Thomas Jefferson

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jakob Dylan

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Joe Carlozo

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

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

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

Tony Dorsett

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Epictetus

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

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

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

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

Pietro Aretino