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Inspirational Quotes

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.

John P. Strelecky

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

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.

Karl Jaspers

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

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

Abraham Lincoln

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

Ayn Rand

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Norman Vincent Peale

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

G. M. Trevelyan

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

The show must go on.

Proverb

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

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

Charles Buxton

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

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

James Oppenheim

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen