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Inspirational Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

Coach K

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.

Swami Vivekananda

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

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

Michael Johnson

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

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Earl Nightingale

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

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

Mike Wickett

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

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

John Stuart Mill

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Confucius

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman