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Inspirational Quotes

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

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

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

Plato

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

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 I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Dale Carnegie

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Elbert Hubbard

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.

Hubert Bonner

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

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

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

Zig Ziglar

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

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

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

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

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

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

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

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

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

Winston Churchill

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes

Earl Nightingale

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel