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Inspirational Quotes

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

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

Zig Ziglar

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

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

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

Robert Half

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

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

Mark Twain

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

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

Kahil Gibran

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."

Joe Flacco

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Robert Fripp

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Marcus Washling

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

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

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Mark Twain

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller