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Inspirational Quotes

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The show must go on.

Proverb

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

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

W. Somerset Maugham

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

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

Unknown

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

W. Clement Stone

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

W. Somerset Manghan

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Thomas Edison

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."

Joe Flacco

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

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

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter

Aristotle

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Allard Lowenstein

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

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

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

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

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi