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Inspirational Quotes

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

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

Thomas Henry Huxley

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

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

So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.

Bruce Lee

Anything is possible.

Unknown

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Thomas Edison

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

W. Clement Stone

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Anonymous

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

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

Anonymous

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

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

Swami Vivekananda

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

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

Robert Frost

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

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

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May