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Inspirational Quotes

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

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

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

Thomas Carlyle

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

William Shakespeare

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

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

Thomas Edison

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

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

Albert Schweitzer

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

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

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

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

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

David Bly

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

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

Su Shi

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Mueller

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas Edison

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

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee