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Inspirational Quotes

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

Anonymous

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

E.M. Kelly

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.

Thomas Edison

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Dale Carnegie

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

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

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

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

Aristotle

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

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

Josh Billings

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

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

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brian Tracy

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

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

Sydney Harris

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Norman Vincent Peale

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

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

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Gerald J. Simmons

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

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

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Epictetus

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

Albert Einstein

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michael Jordan

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington