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Inspirational Quotes

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.

Unknown

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

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

Paul J. Meyer

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Abraham Lincoln

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

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

John Wicker

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

Horace

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

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

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

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

William Arthur Ward

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

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

Abraham Lincoln

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Harvey Mackay

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.

Hubert Bonner

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

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

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin

When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.

Bruce Lee

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

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

W. Somerset Manghan

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

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

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

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

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.

E. Joseph Cossman

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval