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Inspirational Quotes

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

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

Lucy Larcom

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

Conrad Hilton

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

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

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

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

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

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

Anything is possible.

Unknown

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Winston Churchill

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

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

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Norman Vincent Peale

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens