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Inspirational Quotes for March 19, 2004
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.- Glenn Clark
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
Inspirational Quotes for March 12, 2004
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -Wayne Dyer
Inspirational Quotes for March 5, 2004
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. - Jim Rohn
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie
Inspirational Quotes for February 27, 2004
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Inspirational Quotes for February 20, 2004
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James
Inspirational Quotes for February 13, 2004
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. -Dalai Lama
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard
Inspirational Quotes for February 6, 2004
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. - Beca Allen
Inspirational Quotes for January 30, 2004
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong
Inspirational Quotes for January 23, 2004
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Inspirational Quotes for January 16, 2004
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
Inspirational Quotes for January 9, 2004
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
Inspirational Quotes for January 2, 2004
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
Inspirational Quotes for December 26, 2003
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson, "Night Court"
Inspirational Quotes for December 19, 2003
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. - Michelangelo
Inspirational Quotes for December 12, 2003
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. - Amy Grant
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
Inspirational Quotes for December 5, 2003
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. - Hillel
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
Inspirational Quotes for November 28, 2003
Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino
Inspirational Quotes for November 21, 2003
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore De Balzac
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin
Inspirational Quotes for November 14, 2003
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. - Clare Booth Luce
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes for November 7, 2003
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. - Alexander Graham Bell
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - Galbraith's Law
Inspirational Quotes for October 31, 2003
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." - Les Brown
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. - Mark Twain
Inspirational Quotes for October 24, 2003
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other - Brian Tracy
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. - Mark Victor Hansen
Inspirational Quotes for October 17, 2003
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." - Mark Twain
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." - William Arthur
Inspirational Quotes for October 10, 2003
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular . . . It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. - Uta Hagen
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking
Inspirational Quotes for October 3, 2003
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab