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Inspirational Quotes

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

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

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

P. T. Barnum

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren Bennis

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.

Steve Walton

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

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

Aldous Huxley

Anything is possible.

Unknown

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Marcel Proust

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

Unknown

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

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

W. Clement Stone

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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

Thomas Edison

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

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

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

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

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge