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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt


Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Alfred A. Montapert


Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe


Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama


Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins


You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson


There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela


The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Henry Drummond


Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Carl von Clausewitz


Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

 


Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Jim Rohn


Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Angel Ruiz


Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

George Herbert


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot


The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine


I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller


Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James


Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson


Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard


When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Natalie Gulbis


The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius


Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

George Whitefield


To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg



Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Maya Angelou 


My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou


Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs


Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Napoleon Hill


I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino


Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth


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

Nido Qubein


Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson


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


Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda


Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn


Enthusiasm moves the world.

Arthur Balfour


You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt


When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward


In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi


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

Napoleon Hill


Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran


Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker


Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer


The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering


Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Fulton J. Sheen


Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks


Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul


I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Nikos Kazantzakis


The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Richard Bach


God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus


We convince by our presence.

Walt Whitman


And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk


Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

William Morris


To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

Snoop Dogg


Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

Pele


I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

Mindy Kaling


A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim


The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz


A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere


The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington


A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Emma Watson


Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

Gifford Pinchot


Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Morihei Ueshiba


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James


Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes


We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

James McGreevey


One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green


What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh


If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake


For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Lao Tzu


The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho


When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill


There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade


The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren


Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas


Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop


Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Swami Sivananda


Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley


Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks