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Inspirational Quotes

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

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

William Cowper

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

William Arthur Ward

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Know thyself.

Socrates

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Mark Twain

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

Henry Ford

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

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

Napoleon Hill

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

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

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

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

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

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

Robert Half

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Swami Vivekananda

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

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

Thomas Jefferson

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

Galileo Galilei

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within

Earl Nightingale

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

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

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

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

William A. Ward

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

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.