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Inspirational Quotes

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.

Thomas Edison

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

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

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Horace

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

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

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

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

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

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

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

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

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

Mark Twain

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes

Thomas Jefferson

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Swami Vivekananda

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Dennis Waitley

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

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

Swami Vivekananda

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda