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Inspirational Quotes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?

Diogenes

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

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

Thomas Jefferson

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes

Brian Tracy

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

Chinese Proverb

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

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

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

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

Samuel Coleridge

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

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

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

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

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

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

Winston Churchill

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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

Anonymous

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

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

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi