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Inspirational Quotes

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Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.- Christian D. Larson

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.- Josiah Gilbert Holland

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.- Joseph Campbell

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.- Zig Ziglar

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.- Edith Wharton

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.- Arthur Schopenhauer

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.- Robert Louis Stevenson

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.- Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.- Og Mandino

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.- Norman Vincent Peale

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your house bold.- Tryon Edwards

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.- Henry David Thoreau

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.- Confucius

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.- Rosa Parks

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.- Vince Lombardi

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.- Carrie-Anne Moss

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.- Pablo Neruda

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.- Helen Keller

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.- Oprah Winfrey

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.- Tony Robbins

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.- Plutarch

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.- Nido Qubein

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.- Rosie O'Donnell

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.- Anne Frank

I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.- Carly Schroeder

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.- Cheryl James

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.- Mark Twain

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.- Marianne Vos

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.- Henry Ford

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile." - Arlen Specter

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.- Marianne Williamson

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.- Om Puri

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.- Ellen DeGeneres