Inspirational Quotes

" Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it." ~ Goethe
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" Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan."
- C. S. Lewis
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Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
John Maxwell
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Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Abraham Lincoln
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Sarasate, the greatest Spanish violinist of the nineteenth century, was once called a genius by a famous critic. In reply to this, Sarasate declared, “Genius! For thirty-seven years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius.”
John Maxwell
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Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss
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It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Without rest, a man cannot work. Without work, the rest does not give you any benefit.
Abkhasian Proverb
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The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you’ve found what you were created to do, stick with it.
John Maxwell
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Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.
John Maxwell
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"Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
Gandalf
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Anonymous
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Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
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There are two types of people who never achieve much in their lifetime. The person who won’t do what he is told, and the person who does no more than he is told.
Andrew Carnegie
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Gordon
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them,
make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Anxiety is caused by the lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.
- Davis Kekich
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The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.
- Captain J.A. Hatfield
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labor of other [humans], living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving.
- Albert Einstein
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Ben Franklin
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
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Out of Intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryant
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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"God’s love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it."
— John H. Groberg, Ensign, November 2004
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What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
- Unknown
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