Inspirational Quotes
Enjoy our collection of famous inspirational quotes to live by. We all need inspirational thoughts and words in our life and these quotations can provide just that. We hope you find these quotes will help you or someone you know to live a life that is inspired by the past accomplishments and thoughts of others. Here is one of our all time favorite sayings, "If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.", by William Arthur Ward.There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own . . . for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!
Linda Staten, Seize The Day
There is nothing in life that can defeat you faster than giving in to defeat. If you want to live, fight to live. Shame never killed anybody. Grief never killed anybody. Humiliation never killed anybody.
Paggy Say, When The Worst That Can Happen Already Has
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
Some crap is necessary and some is even good for you, but some crap should simply be avoided.
Erin Elisabeth Conley, Karen Macklin, Jake Miller, Crap: How To Deal With Annoying Teachers, Bosses, Backstabbers, And Other Stuff That Stinks
A 'Tough-Minded Optimist' then is one who doesn't break apart in his thoughts whatever the stress and who continues hopefully and cheerfully to expect the good no matter what the apparent situation.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
If you want engaged, motivated employees, make sure that they feel confident in their jobs; let them know you appreciate their effort, especially when it has been extraordinary; and give them opportunities to learn and grow, to take on projects that would be meaningful (socially or personally) and that would put them closer to achieving their goals.
Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees
Most people with bad attitudes usually point to something other than themselves to explain their problem. But you can't rightfully blame your attitude on anything or anyone but yourself. It's not what happens to you but what happens in you that counts.
John C. Maxwell, Your Road Map For Success
If you feel something in your heart and know it resonates within you as something you should try, yet you hold back out of fear, you set yourself up for regret. Make no mistake about it, regret is an appalling waste of energy.
Dyer, Wayne W.. Wisdom Of The Ages: 60 Days To Enlightenment. HarperCollins Publishers, 2002, p. 151.
We can choose to make rules for ourselves, which
though onerous, are at least self-imposed. If we chafe under their
restrictions, it is at least not with rebellion against or resignation to other's dominance.
McCarty, Meladee, and McCarty, Hanoch. The Daily Journal Of Kindness. Health Communications, Inc., 1996, p. 126.
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Live simply that others might simply live.
Elizabeth Seaton
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
Author Unknown
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
Sydney Smith
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Albert Schweitzer
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
Diana Black
The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis
We need not think alike to love alike.
Francis David
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
John Junor
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
Author Unknown
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
French proverb
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jasamyn West
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