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Inspirational Quotes

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

Swami Vivekananda

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

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

Thomas Edison

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

Ayn Rand

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

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

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

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

Thomas Jefferson

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

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

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Albert Einstein

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.

George DeVack

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

E. Joseph Cossman

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Never say die.

Proverb

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

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

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

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

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Dennis Waitley

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

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

Harold R. McAlindon

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

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

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

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

George Eliot

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle