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Inspirational Quotes

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

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

Thomas Jefferson

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Winston Churchill

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

French Proverb

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

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

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

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

Persian Proverb

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.

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

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.

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

Margaret Thatcher

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

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

Mark Victor Hansen

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Never complain about what you permit.

Mike Murdock

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

T.S. Eliot

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

It's never too late.

Unknown

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda