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Inspirational Quotes

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

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 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

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

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

Abraham Lincoln

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

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

Les Brown

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

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

Winston Churchill

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.

Nolan Bushnell

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas Edison

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

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

Dalai Lama

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

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

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Tom Hopkins

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dennis Waitley

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

Mahatma Gandhi

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.

W. Mitchell

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

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

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

Anonymous

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

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

Admiral Collingwood

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

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

Harold R. McAlindon

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

Buddha

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

Jim Rohn

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda