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Inspirational Quotes

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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

Harvey Mackay

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

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

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

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

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

Samuel Coleridge

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

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

Anonymous

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.

Martin Buber

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

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

Henry Ford

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

The Supremes

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.

Unknown

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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 only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Seize the day.

Unknown

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

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

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

Ayn Rand

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran