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Inspirational Quotes

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

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

Martha Washington

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

Know thyself.

Socrates

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Harold R. McAlindon

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

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 fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

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

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

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

Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

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. Discover.

Mark Twain

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jim Rohn

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

The show must go on.

Proverb

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Be Here Now.

Ram Dass

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

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

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

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

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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

Mary Norton Gordon

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra