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Inspirational Quotes

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

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

Tom Clancy

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

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

Anonymous

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Jim Rohn

Don't quit.

Unknown

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

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

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Thomas Jefferson

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

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

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

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

Dennis Waitley

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

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

Hasidic Proverb

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

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

Confucius

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy