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Inspirational Quotes

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

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

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

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

Clark Moustakas

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

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

Anonymous

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Never complain about what you permit.

Mike Murdock

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

General George S. Patton

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

Isaac Bashevis

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

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

William Shedd

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Chinese Proverb

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching

Satchel Paige

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

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

Stephen Covey

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Zig Ziglar

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

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

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

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

Albert Einstein

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

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

Winston Churchill

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

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

Anthony Robbins

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey