INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : LEADERSHIP

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : LEADERSHIP
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" Benjamin Disraeli

"He that cannot obey, cannot command." Benjamin Franklin

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower

• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
• There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter F. Drucker
• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H. Glasgow
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
• "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." Eleanor Roosevelt
• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters
• "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." Benjamin Disraeli
• "You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." Dwight Eisenhower
• "A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." Jim Rohn
• "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton
• "Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep." Kenneth Blanchard
• "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Arthur Ward
• "The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I". And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I". They don't think "I". They think "we"; they think "team". They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done." Peter F. Drucker
• "In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power." Kenneth Blanchard
• "I always remember the axiom: a leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." Nelson Mandela

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : INTEGRITY

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : INTEGRITY

• One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German Proverb
• To have integrity is also to have character which is also the easiest way to run into conflict with those without either. Byron Pulsifer
• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. Mark Twain
• Integrity can be difficult to maintain in a world that demands you change with the wind. Byron Pulsifer
• Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. Don Galer
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
• To have integrity means that you don't agree with everyone you meet, nor do you succumb to pressure to be something that is in direct conflict with your core ethics. Byron Pulsifer
• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
• Character is higher than intellect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Indira Gandhi
• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
• There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. Bishop Desmond Tutu
• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
• We need to stress that personal integrity is as important as executive skill in businers dealings.. Russell E. Palmer
• No matter the time of day, no matter who is watching and no matter the situation, personal integrity doesn't take a holiday. Byron Pulsifer
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. J.C. Watts
• You cannot always do the right thing but you can always do whatever you do with integrity. Byron Pulsifer
• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HOPE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HOPE
"Hope isn't about wishing for things to happen; hope happens when there is a will and freedom of choice to act without prejudice."
Byron Pulsifer

"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
Barck Obama

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."
Christopher Reeve

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie

"To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves."
Byron Pulsifer

"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope."
Henri J. Nouwen

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
Thomas Merton

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 them.
Louisa May Alcott

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Titus Maccius Plautus

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Edgar Howe

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Samuel Johnson

Hoping just doesn't get it done; taking positive and consistent action over time does.
Byron Pulsifer

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marian Zimmer Bradley

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
George Iles

When a person has true hope it means that they have taken a wish and turned it into a goal. And, from that goal, detailed action is taken that turns hope to reality.
Byron Pulsifer

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.
Sloan, Tina. Changing Shoes. Gotham Books, 2010, p. 142.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
French Proverb

Never lose hope no matter how long it takes! Believe in yourself even when you feel alone in your battles.
Shadonna Richards, A Gift of Hope

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failure as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.
Wilferd Peterson, The Art of Living

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HONESTY

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HONESTY
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Henry Louis Mencken

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke

One of the most basic core values is honesty. Catherine Pulsifer

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. Zig Ziglar

Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Charles Dickens

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. Spencer Johnson

Be prepared and be honest. John Wooden

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. John F. Dodge

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. Mary MacCracken

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. Nelson Mandela

Honesty is fearing a negative response and telling the truth anyway. Michelle C. Ustaszeski

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. Andrew Carnegie

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Ambrose Bierce

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HEALTH

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HEALTH
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over care of it.
Benjamin Franklin

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. Harris

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
Mignon McLaughlin

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabic Proverb

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis

Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Cher

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Hygiene is two thirds of health.
Lebanese Phrase

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington Irving

It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold.
Gandhi

For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Latin Proverb

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
Theodore Roosevelt

What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.
Jewish Phrase

Good health, good luck, and happiness For today and every day.
Irish Saying

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HAPPINESS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HAPPINESS
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Albert Schweitzer

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." Albert Camus

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." Anne Frank

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." Benjamin Franklin

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." Adam Smith

"Happiness is a state of mind not what's in your wallet." Byron Pulsifer

"If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily." Plato

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

Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." Denis Waitley

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." Bertrand Russell

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" Albert Camus

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : GREATNESS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : GREATNESS
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." Henry Ward Beecher

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." Napoleon Hill

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." Marleen Charles de Montesquieu

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." Ansel Adams

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." Buck Rodgers

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it." Rainer Maria Rilke

"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others." Dalai Lama

"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being." Sigmund Freud

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." Henry Ford

"Responsibility is the price of greatness." Winston Churchill

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit." W. Clement Stone

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." Napoleon Hill

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." Benjamin Disraeli

"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude." Pat Riley

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : FRIENDS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : FRIENDS
Friends have all things in common. Plato

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas Fuller

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends. Irish Saying

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Louisa May Alcott

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful. William Arthur Ward

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Bernard M. Baruch

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

A single rose can be my garden - a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Washington Irving

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. Zig Ziglar

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best looking-glass is the eyes of a friend. Irish Proverb

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXPERIENCE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXPERIENCE

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Leonard Huxley

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas,
but for scars. Elbert Hubbard

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sometimes you have to do a lot of things to determine what it is you don't want to do. Along the way you pick up a lot of experience. Wally Amos

A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard M. Baruch

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. Tom Brokaw

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. Marilyn Monroe

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along". Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. John Wooden

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. Denis Waitley

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. Oprah Winfrey

If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations, YOU CAN positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible. Catherine Pulsifer

As a woman I've always felt that as we get older we get better. You come to terms with yourself, through emotional experiences and the simple wisdom that comes with age. Linda Evans

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. Leo Buscaglia

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Jonathan Swift

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. Lou Holtz

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. George Harrison

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXCELLENCE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : EXCELLENCE
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.Aristotle

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.John F. Kennedy

Excellent things are rare.Plato

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

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.Michael J. Fox

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.Colin Powell

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.Thomas Jefferson

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.Pat Riley

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.Booker T. Washington

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.Henry Ward Beecher

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.Horace

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.Steve Jobs

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.William Arthur Ward

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
Brian Tracy

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

The noblest search is the search for excellence.Lyndon B. Johnson

Excellence always sells.Earl Nightingale

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.George Eliot

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.Satchel Paige

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.Bob Beamon

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.Thomas J. Watson

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.Zig Ziglar

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.President Barack Obama

Always be getting and doing better. Never settle for mediocrity.Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide

To achieve our personal best, we must overcome incorrect beliefs, many of which have been imprinted and reinforced ever since third grade.Henry Marsh, The Breakthrough Factor

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : DREAMS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : DREAMS
To give up the things you love is to abandon your dreams and allow a part of yourself to die. Nurture these parts of you as you would a flower and it will blossom and bring joy and beauty into your life; joy and beauty you may never have otherwise known.
By Michelle Ambler 2011

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet. William Butler Yeats

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. Denis Waitley

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. W. Clement Stone

Do more than dream: work. William Arthur Ward

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Robert Browning

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes! Milton Berle

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. Jean Paul Richter

Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you. African Proverb

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : DIFFICULT TIMES

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : DIFFICULT TIMES
"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." Dolly Parton

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." Gail Sheehy

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Mahummad Ali

"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." Chuang Tzu

You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you're certainly responsible for getting back up. Wally Amos

"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." Elizabeth Montagu

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. "Nothing" is the worst thing that can happen to us! Richard Bach

"The part can never be well unless the whole is well."
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"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. Bernard M. Baruch

"Challenges and difficult times aren't just those things that occur to someone else. The secret is in learning to turn problems into positives and attacking each issue with action not inaction." Byron Pulsifer

"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it." Robert H. Schuller

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher

"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." Charles W. Chesnutt

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. Dale Carnegie

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. Emmet Fox

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : COMMUNICATION

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : COMMUNICATION
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. Anthony Robbins

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Dr. Laurence J. Peter

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. Anthony Robbins

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. Sue Patton Thoele

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. Sydney J. Harris

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. Charlie Kaufman

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Jim Rohn

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. Sir Edward Appleton

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. Aprocrypha

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. Tom Lehrer

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Winston Churchill

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl S. Buck

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. Enrique Iglesias

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. Rosenstock Huessy

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk. M. Chase Smith

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : CHANGE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : CHANGE
"Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." Catherine Pulsifer

"Everyone can think of the one thing that would make life better for them. But people are not so quick to answer the second question: 'What are you doing to make that change come true'." Catherine Pulsifer

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

"Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." Charles F. Kettering

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." Confucius

"Never stop learning, like never stop changing and growing in your life - learning helps you adapt to change more easily." Learning Quotes

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Jim Rohn

We are often disappointed because of our expectations. Only when you learn to see circumstances as they truly are can you become the architect of improvement." Greg Henry Quinn

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." George Bernard Shaw

"If you resist change, you will face challenges on a daily basis. If you consciously refocus your attitude to see the benefits of change, your outlook becomes positive and life becomes easier." Catherine Pulsifer

"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated." Leo Tolstoy

"No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of action - Change occurs." Catherine Pulsifer

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." Richard Bach

"Don't let others change your life, be your own change agent and implement the changes you want! And if an unexpected change occurs in your life, find the positive in it. Catherine Pulsifer

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." Benjamin Disraeli

"To focus on the people who do not like you and the things you cannot change is like climbing an infinite mountain; instead focus on the people who love you and the things you can change and you will find you can move mountains!" Michelle Ghislaine Ambler

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: ATTITUDE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: ATTITUDE
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. Pat Riley

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. W. Clement Stone

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy

You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action. Catherine Pulsifer

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight - The truly wise person is colorblind." Albert Schweitzer

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy

You can do it if you believe you can! Napoleon Hill

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. Anthony Robbins

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Maya Angelou

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. Norman Vincent Peale

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. Norman Vincent Peale

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking. Robert H. Schuller, Success is Never Ending Failure is Never Final
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: ACHIEVEMENTS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: ACHIEVEMENTS
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Napoleon Hill

Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

Achievement results from work realizing ambition. Adam Ant

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. William Arthur Ward

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. Sigmund Freud

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. Blaise Pascal

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again Mark Twain

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles F. Kettering

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. Author Unknown

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want Zig Ziglar
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