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Inspirational Quotes

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

Robert H. Schuller

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Thomas Edison

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Arthur Ward

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

None are homely who smile.

Robert Half

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

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

Dennis Waitley

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Thomas Jefferson

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

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

Don Marquis

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

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

W.C Fields

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

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

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

English Proverb

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.

Tom Clancy