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Inspirational Quotes

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

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

Winston Churchill

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

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

Anonymous

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Mike Wickett

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

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

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

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

Anonymous

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

David Starr Jordan

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Jefferson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

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

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

Helen Keller

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

You create your reality.

Unknown

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

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

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

George Catlin

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

Zig Ziglar

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

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

Stephen Covey

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

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

Anonymous

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?

W. Clement Stone

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

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

Aldous Huxley

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

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Attitude is everything.

Unknown