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Inspirational Quotes

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Donald Curtis

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

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

Unknown

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Japanese Proverb

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Oscar Wilde

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.

Harvey Mackay

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

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

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

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

Norman Vincent Peale

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?

Anthony Robbins

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

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

W. Clement Stone

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

We come to beginnings only at the end.

William Bridges

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson