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Inspirational Quotes

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

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

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

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

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

Samuel Coleridge

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

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

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

Wayne Gretzky

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Isaac Asimov

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.

Harvey Mackay

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

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

Harvey Mackay

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

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

Henry David Thoreau

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn