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Inspirational Quotes

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time

Marion Wright Edelman

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Thomas Edison

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

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

General George S. Patton

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

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

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Unknown

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

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

Seneca

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Seneca

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

Live life with passion.

Unknown

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.

Bruce Lee

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

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving