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Inspirational Quotes

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

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

Dennis Waitley

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

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

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.

Bruce Lee

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

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

Anthony Robbins

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

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

Tony Dorsett

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Elbert Hubbard

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

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

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

Dennis Waitley

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

Attitude determines altitude.

Anonymous

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

Abraham Lincoln

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer