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Inspirational Quotes

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

None are homely who smile.

Robert Half

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

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

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.

Rollo May

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

Anthony Robbins

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

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

Claudia Black

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon