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Inspirational Quotes

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

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

Anonymous

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

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

Anthony Robbins

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

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

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

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

Steven Covey

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Barbara Winter

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

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

Storm Jameson

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

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

Ayn Rand

The show must go on.

Proverb

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Confucius

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

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

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

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

Vince Lombardi

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

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 harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Robert H. Schuller

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

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

Alan Watts

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace