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Inspirational Quotes

Don't quit.

Unknown

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

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

Tom Hopkins

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Henry Ford

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

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

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

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

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

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

Albert Schweitzer

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

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

Mary Kay Ash

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mahatma Gandhi

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill

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

Harvey Mackay

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

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

Margaret Thatcher

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

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