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Inspirational Quotes

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Anais Nin

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Sherry Anderson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Never say die.

Proverb

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

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

Albert Einstein

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Winston Churchill

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Geri Weitzman

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

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

Donald Trump

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

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

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

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

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill