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Inspirational Quotes

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

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

Aldous Huxley

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

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

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Edison

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

Unknown

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

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

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

Ayn Rand

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Anonymous

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

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

Confucius

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Thomas Jefferson

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

Never Quit.

Unknown

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

Winston Churchill

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln