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Inspirational Quotes

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

The show must go on.

Proverb

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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

Anonymous

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Japanese Proverb

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

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

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

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

Winston Churchill

Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.

Harvey Mackay

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

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

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

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

Soren Kierkegaard

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

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

General George S. Patton

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

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

Zen Proverb

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

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

William B. Sprague

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

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

Winston Churchill

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

Embrace that small things lead to big things.

John P. Strelecky

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb