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Inspirational Quotes

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?

John P. Strelecky

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

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

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?

Josh Hinds

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

Anything is possible.

Unknown

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:43-45

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

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

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

Unknown

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.

William Wordsworth

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.

Swami Vivekananda

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

John S. Hinds

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Unknown

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

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

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

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

Thomas Edison

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes

Thomas Edison

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

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

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

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Swami Vivekananda

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

Thomas Edison

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

This too, shall pass.

Persian 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

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

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter

Aristotle

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

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

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton