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Inspirational Quotes

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

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

Dale Carnegie

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

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

Anonymous

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

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

Harvey Mackay

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?

Sydney Harris

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Norman Vincent Peale

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

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

English Proverb

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

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

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Mark Victor Hansen

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Barbara Winter

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.

Joe Flacco

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

Dennis Waitley

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale