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Inspirational Quotes

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

John Churton Collins

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

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

Horace

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

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

Napoleon Hill

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

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

Winston Churchill

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

George Santayana

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey Mackay

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

Don't quit.

Unknown

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

Calvin Coolidge

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

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

Martha Washington

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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

Helen Keller

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

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Roll with the punches.

Unknown

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

Dennis Waitley

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

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

Martin Buber

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

John W. Turk

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

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

Abraham Lincoln

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins