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Inspirational Quotes

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.

Unknown

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anthony Robbins

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

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

Roger Smith

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

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

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

E. Joseph Cossman

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

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

Stephen Covey

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.

Greek Proverb

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Success is a journey not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

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

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

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

Japanese Proverb

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

It's never too late.

Unknown

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

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

Swami Vivekananda

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

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

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Edison

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay