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Inspirational Quotes

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

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

David Bly

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

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

Henry Ford

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

Keep away from 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

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

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

Wayne Gretzky

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Vince Lombardi

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

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

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

Ronald Reagan

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

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

Jim Rohn

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Swami Vivekananda

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

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

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

George Catlin

You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

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

Dottie Walters

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

Anonymous

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

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

J. Richard Clarke