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Inspirational Quotes

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

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

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

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

Anonymous

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !

Albert Einstein

Don't quit.

Unknown

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

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're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

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

Thomas Jefferson

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

Know thyself.

Socrates

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

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

Winston Churchill

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

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

Unknown

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

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

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

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

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

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

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

Robert Half

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

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

Swami Vivekananda

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Swami Vivekananda

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn