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Inspirational Quotes

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

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

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

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

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

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

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

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

Napoleon Hill

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

Swami Vivekananda

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

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Stan Smith

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

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

Zig Ziglar

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Dennis Waitley

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

Abraham Lincoln

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

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

Michael Johnson

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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

Marianne Williamson