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Inspirational Quotes

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

Swami Vivekananda

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

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

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

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

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

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

Winston Churchill

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.

Anthony Robbins

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

Clark Moustakas

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.

Bruce Lee

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

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

Jim Rohn

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

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

Emily Dickinson

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

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

Karl Kraus

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Dennis Waitley

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Albert Einstein

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

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

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

Mark Twain

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

George Santayana

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

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

Congolese Proverb

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder