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Inspirational Quotes

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

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

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

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Mike Litman

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Zig Ziglar

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Anonymous

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

E. Joseph Cossman

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

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

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

English Proverb

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.

Martin Buber

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Nelson Mandela

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

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

James Anthony Froude

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

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

Charles Buxton

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

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

Sugar Ray Robinson

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

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

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Unknown

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

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

Unknown

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

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou