Inspirational Quotes

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Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
Orison Swett Marden

Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

Five frogs are sitting on a log.  Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five.  Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.  Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt,  'Five Frogs on a Log'

There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.  M. Scott Peck

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it. Michaelangelo

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, the neglected opportunity. Omar Ibnal-Halif

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright, in O, the Oprah Magazine

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Negative thoughts are like weeds in your garden and positive thoughts are the seeds of your garden, kill the weeds and feed the seeds. Unknown

The tragedy of life is not death. The tragedy of life is what we allow to die inside of us while we live. Dr. Norman Cousins

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,  For that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharal Nehru

One way to get the most out of life is t look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Unknown

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Robert Cushing

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. Edward Bulwer Lytton

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
Galileo Galilei

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. Unknown

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. Jean-Paul Sartre

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading. Thomas à Kempis

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Unknown