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Inspirational Quotes

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

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

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

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

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

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

John Maxwell

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

Peter F. Drucker

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

Zig Ziglar

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

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

Ed Parker

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

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

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

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

Winston Churchill

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb