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Inspirational Quotes

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

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

Confucius

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?

Josh Hinds

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Mahatma Gandhi

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

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

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

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

Anonymous

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

Brian Weir

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

Thomas Jefferson

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

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

William Arthur Ward

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

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

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

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

Aldous Huxley

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

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

Anonymous

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

Les Brown

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.

Bruce Lee

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow