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Inspirational Quotes for September 26, 2003
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H. L. Mencken
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. - Og Mandino
Inspirational Quotes for September 19, 2003
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. - Walter Linn
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational Quotes for September 12, 2003
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash
Inspirational Quotes for September 5, 2003
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games. - Paul "Bear" Bryant
Every man dies. Not every man lives. - Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. - Les Brown
Inspirational Quotes for August 29, 2003
A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser. - Emmett Fox
No one's head aches when he is comforting another - Indian Proverb
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of- Benjamin Franklin.
Inspirational Quotes for August 22, 2003
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berri
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. - Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Inspirational Quotes for August 15, 2003
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
Inspirational Quotes for August 8, 2003
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. - Chester L. Karrass
Inspirational Quotes for August 1, 2003
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspirational Quotes for July 25, 2003
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton
I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught. - Winston Churchill
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. - Harry S Truman
Inspirational Quotes for July 18, 2003
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. - Bill Keane
Inspirational Quotes for July 11, 2003
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
Inspirational Quotes for July 4, 2003
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure. - Thomas J. Watson
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational Quotes for June 27, 2003
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Allen
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker
Inspirational Quotes for June 20, 2003
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
Inspirational Quotes for June 13, 2003
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
Inspirational Quotes for June 6, 2003
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain. - William Jennings Bryan
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inspirational Quotes for May 30, 2003
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham
Inspirational Quotes for May 23, 2003
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -Napoleon Hill
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -Jim Rohn
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -Diane Sawyer
Inspirational Quotes for May 16, 2003
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. -Braveheart
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -Leo Buscaglia.
[about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. -Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King
Inspirational Quotes for May 9, 2003
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes for May 2, 2003
The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. -Anthony Robbins
Inspirational Quotes for April 25, 2003
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing happens unless first a dream. -Carl Sandburg
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap. - Cynthia Heimel
Inspirational Quotes for April 18, 2003
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock
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
Inspirational Quotes for April 11, 2003
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
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. -Adlai E. Stevenson
Time is the wisest counsellor. -Pericles