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Inspirational Quotes

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

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

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

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

Harold R. McAlindon

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

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

Bruce Lee

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

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

Leighton

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

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

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.

Bruce Lee

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

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

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes

Thomas Edison

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Dale Carnegie

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .

John Greenleaf Whittier

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson