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Inspirational Quotes

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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

Thomas Edison

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.

William Wordsworth

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Arthur C. Clarke

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

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

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

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

Vince Lombardi

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

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

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Winston Churchill

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brian Tracy

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

It's never too late.

Unknown

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

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

Czech Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

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

Les Brown

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

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

Christy Borgeld

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

W.C Fields

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

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

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

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

Thomas Jefferson

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Thomas Edison