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Inspirational Quotes

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?

W. Clement Stone

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

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

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.

German Proverb

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

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

Alan Watts

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

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

Plutarch

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?

Diogenes

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

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

Unattributed

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

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

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

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren Bennis

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

Danish Proverb

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Stephen Covey

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

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

Anthony Robbins

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

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

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Storm Jameson

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar