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Inspirational Quotes

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

Earl Nightingale

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

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

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

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

Anonymous

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

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

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Hunker down.

Unknown

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

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

Albert Einstein

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

Anonymous

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

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

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?

Robert Half

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

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

Anonymous

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

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

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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust