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Inspirational Quotes

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

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

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

Never Quit.

Unknown

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

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

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

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

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

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

Abraham Lincoln

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Napoleon Hill

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Abraham Lincoln

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

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

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

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

George Eliot

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?

Robert Half

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy