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Inspirational Quotes

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

Never say die.

Proverb

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

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

Saudi Arabian Proverb

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

W. R. Inge

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

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

Winston Churchill

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

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

Japanese Proverb

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Zig Ziglar

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

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

Oscar Wilde

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.

John P. Strelecky

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous