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Inspirational Quotes

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

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

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.

Swami Vivekananda

The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

Karl Jaspers

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

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

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

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

William A. Ward

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon Johnson

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

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

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

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

Bill Cosby

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Donald Trump

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

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

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb