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Inspirational Quotes

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

Anonymous

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Change comes from within.

Unknown

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

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

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

Never complain about what you permit.

Mike Murdock

Don't quit.

Unknown

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

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

Tony Dorsett

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

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

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Seize the day.

Unknown

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Larry the Cable Guy

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

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

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

James Allen

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

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.

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

Danish Proverb

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

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

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw