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35 inspiring quotes for January

Inspirational and motivational quotes for January 2012.

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“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.”
– Charles Givens

“The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.”
– Zen saying

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

“In work, do what you enjoy.”
– Lao Tzu

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.”
– Paul Meyer

“Less judgment, less trying, less improvement, less regret.”
– Kazuaki Tanahashi

“I am a slow walker … but I never walk backwards.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Although I showed you the means of liberation, you must know it depends on you alone.” – Buddha

“Be truly whole, and all things will come to you.” – Lao Tzu

“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
– Peter Drucker

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
– Al Batt

“To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.”
– Sister Mary Lauretta

“Real wealth equals ideas plus energy.”
– Buckminster Fuller

“The road to success runs uphill.”
– Willie Davis

“All is changeable, nothing is constant.”
– Buddhist proverb.

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
– Goethe

“No one can ever gain strength by brooding over his weakness.”
– Paramananda

“I never waste time looking back.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”
– Henry Kissinger

“Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.”
– Zig Ziglar

“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.”
– Steven Spielberg

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu

“I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
– Robert Schuller

“You must have long range goals to keep from being frustrated by short term failures.”
– Bob Bales

“Successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste.”
– Henry Ford

“Be concerned less with people knowing you than developing qualities worth knowing.”
– Confucius

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
– Duke Ellington

“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.”
– Washington Irving

“Do what is good and ask not what follows.”
– Kenko

“First, say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
– Vince Lombardi

 
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36 inspiring quotes for December

Inspirational and motivational quotes for December 2011.

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“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.”
– Wally Amos

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
– Adlai Stevenson

“The ‘how’ thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs.'”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Success of life depends upon keeping one’s mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.”
– Alice Foote MacDougall

“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”
– Faith Baldwin

“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
– Francis Quarles

“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
– James Baldwin

“The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.”
– Anonymous

“If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
– Tallulah Bankhead

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
– Bernadette Devlin

“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
– George Patton

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Anthony Robbins

“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”
– Socrates

“The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”
– Genghis Khan

“Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.”
– Paul Meyer

“Forget yourself and start to work.”
– Gordon Hinckley

“The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves.”
–  Swami Vivekananda

“One must have strategies to execute dreams.”
– Azim Premji

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”
– Arthur Brisbane

“When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Albert Einstein

“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
– Michael Jordan

“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute greatly to success.”
– Harry Fosdick

“Make your life a mission – not an intermission.”
– Arnold Glasgow

“They can because they think they can.”
– Virgil

“It takes 20 years to become an overnight success.”
– Eddie Cantor

“Hard work is the price we must pay for success.”
– Vince Lombardi

“You can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
– Vince Lombardi

“In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
– Steve Jobs

“As we look into the 21st century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
– Bill Gates

“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”
– Tobias Wolff

 

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36 inspiring quotes for November

Inspirational and motivational quotes for November 2011.

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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, affects its successful outcome.”
– William James

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”
– Alan Alda

“Here is a test to find out whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn’t.”
– Richard Bach

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.”
– Sidney Powell

“It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.”
– Henrik Ibsen

“The idle person gets nowhere. The perpetually busy person does not get much further.”
– Sir Heneage Ogilivie

“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
– Aeschylus

“More persons are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.”
– P.T. Barnum

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
– Luigi Pirandello

“Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.”
– Carl Sandburg

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
– William Blake

“I figured if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.”
– Lowell Thomas

“Once we know our own weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Well done is better than well said.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”
– Sugar Ray Robinson

“No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.”
– The Talmud

“Don’t dream it. Be it!”
– Richard O’Brian

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
– Jim Rohn

“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.”
– Booker T. Washington

“The successful person will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
– Dale Carnegie

“I’ve always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.”
– Beverly Sills

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
– Babe Ruth

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly.”
– Cecil B. De Mille

“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
– Frank Scully

“It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
– Anthony Robbins

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
– Rene Descartes

“Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you don’t know where it can lead.”
– Julia Morgan

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
– Colin Powell

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

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

 

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39 inspiring quotes for October

Inspirational and motivational quotes for October 2011.

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
– Anonymous

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.  We are happy when we are growing.”
– William Butler Yeats

“When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.”
– Shakti Gawain

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
– D. H. Lawrence

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
– Babe Ruth

“The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.”
– Dag Hammarskjold

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
– Ralph Nader

“Move and the way will open.”
– Zen proverb

“God gives the walnuts, but He does not crack them.”
– German proverb

“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”
– Dalai Lama

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.'”
– Maya Angelou

“Never express yourself more clearly than you can think.”
– Niels Bohr

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger, or another time, a little smaller.”
– Paul Klee

“Knowledge overcomes ignorance as sunlight overcomes darkness.”
– Atmabodha Prakasika

“You can tell a clever man by his answers. You can tell a wise man by his questions.”
– Naguib Mahfouz

“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
– Jonas Salk

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.”
– John Addison

“To not advance is to retreat.”
– Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

“The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”
– Thomas Merton

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire

“What separates those who achieve from those who do not is one’s ability to ask for help.”
– Donald Keough

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
– Chinese proverb

“You can do it if you believe you can.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Tomorrow’s wind blows tomorrow.”
– Koji

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Wilson

“The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them
come true.”
– James Allen

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”
– Marcel Proust

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
– Beverly Sills

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”
– Hellen Keller

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering interesting problems.”
– Mark Victor Hansen

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”
– Henry Charles Bukowski

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
– Publilius Syrus

“When ambition ends, happiness begins”
– Hungarian proverb

 

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34 inspiring quotes for September

Motivational and inspirational quotes for September 2011.

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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
– Warren Buffet

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
– Plutarch

“Don’t bother just to be better than others.  Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
– Mark Twain

“Live a good, honorable life. When you think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.”
– Dalai Lama

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
– Eric Hoffer

“It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one’s own gift.”
– Nadia Boulanger

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it.”
– John Ruskin

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
– James Lowell

“Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.”
– Hermann Hesse

“Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.”
– Christiaan Barnard

“The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think.”
– Dean Francis

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– Les Brown

“There is no master, no instructor, no person to tell you what you must do.”
– Krishnamurti

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
– Roger Babson

“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
– Ben Sweetland

“Great fires erupt from tiny sparks.”
– Arabic proverb

“Another sunrise, another new beginning.”
– Jonathan Huie

“To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.”
– Dorothea Brande

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
– Chinese proverb

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
– Al Bernstein

“You can lead a fool to wisdom, but you can’t make him think. ”
– American proverb

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”
– Chinese proverb

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of somebody else.”
– Judy Garland

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
– Anonymous

“As you teach, you learn.” – Jewish proverb

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden

 

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31 inspiring quotes for August

Motivational and inspirational quotes for August 2011.

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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
– Don Marquis

“Opportunities are multiplied as they are seized.”
– Sun Tzu

“I’m in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”
– Shirley MacLaine

“Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.”
– Henry Ford

“Make voyages!  Attempt them!  There’s nothing else.”
– Tennessee Williams

“Live with no time out.”
– Simone de Beauvoir

“With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
– William James

“I have not failed.  I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood.  Only today does the fire burn brightly.”
– Eskimo proverb

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ”
– David Brinkley

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
– Colin Powell

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
– Sophia Loren

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“Change before you have to.”
– Jack Welch

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
– Mark Twain

“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something. Then I realized I am somebody.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
– Malcom Forbes

“You may delay, but time will not.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
– J. Paul Getty

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby

 

31 inspiring quotes for July

Inspirational and motivational quotes for July 2011.

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“It is the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
– Anthony Robbins

“The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.”
– Japanese proverb

“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.”
– Voltaire

“A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.”
– Chinese proverb

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”
– Aldous Huxley

“We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.”
– Seneca

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
– Thomas Paine

“There is always room at the top.”
– Daniel Webster

“There is more happiness in doing your own path without excellence than in doing another’s path well.”
– the Bhagavad Gita

“Those that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.”
– Russian proverb

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to you. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
– John Neal

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
– Christopher Morley

“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”
– John Crowe

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous act without benefit of experience.”
– Henry Miller

“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
– Indira Gandhi

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
– Epictetus

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
– Indian proverb

“Work like you don’t need the money.”
– Mark Twain

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Success is the child of audacity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!”
– Jim Ryun

“I’ve got something inside me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I’m in it till the end of the race.”
– Truman Capote

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

“We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it.”
– FDR

“People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.”
– Pete Zafra

“Accept  and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.”
– Lori Hard

“If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”
– Shelley Long

“A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.”
– Alistair Cooke

“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Follow your dream as long as you live… for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.”
– Plato

 

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30 inspiring quotes for June

Motivational and inspirational quotes for June 2011.

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“The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese proverb

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

“The secret of joy in work: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl S. Buck

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.” – Jack Nicklaus

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Ideals are like the stars; we never reach them, but we chart our course by them.” – Carl Schurz

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“If you do not know what port you are steering for, no wind is favorable for you.” – Seneca

“Success is never ending, failure is never final.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off
your goal.” – Henry Ford

“Remove failure as an option.” – Joan Lunden

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.” – Napoleon Hill

“Screw it, let’s do it!” – Richard Branson

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he
bounces when he hits bottom.” – George Patton

“What is possible for one is possible for all.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The past cannot be changed.  The future is yet in your power.” – Mary Pickford

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Madam Curie

“Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” – Marcus Washling

“No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.” – Greg Henry Quinn

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” – Edmund Burke

“If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.” – Euripedes

“My heros are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” – Bono

“As a well-spent day brings happy life, so life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.” – Anatole France

“Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

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31 inspirational quotes for May

Inspiring and motivating quotes for May 2011.

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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are common sense, hard work, and stick-to-it-iveness.” – Thomas Edison

“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.” – Pope John Paul II

“A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a person perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – St. Augustine

“Great achievements involve great risk.  Just live your dream.” – Dalai Lama

“More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“Turn your face to the sun and shadows will only fall behind you.” – Asian proverb

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.” – Mark Twain

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho

“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.” – Jesse Jackson

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney

“Why aren’t you happy? It’s because 99% of everything you think and say and do is for yourself.” – We Wei Wu

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Early in my life, I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” – Malcom X

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Goethe

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” – Kurt Cobain

“Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.” – Lao Tzu

“It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.” – Josei Toda

“A meowing cat catches no mice.” – Yiddish proverb

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

“Make today worth remembering.” – Zig Ziglar

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Be happy, but never satisfied.” – Bruce Lee

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“You shape your own destiny.” – Chet Atkins

“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.” – Dale Carnegie

“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

 

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30 inspirational quotes for April

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Looking for some motivation and inspiration?  Here’s a quote a day for April 2011.

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“Teamwork is the long word for success.” – Jacquelinemae A. Rudd

“One step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” – Scott Reed

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.” – Dennis Waitley

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” – William James

“Even dust can become a proverb.” – Japanese proverb

“Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.” – W. Clement Stone

“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.” – Yogi Berra

“Hope costs nothing.” – Colette

“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.” – Bunker Hunt

“On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.” – The Bhagavad Gita

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” – Charles Buxton

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” – Les Brown

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” – Sir Isaac Newton

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“If you want to go east, don’t go west.” – Ramakrishna

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” – Mother Theresa

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge is not information, it’s transformation.” – Osho

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.” – Calvin Coolidge

“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” – Dalai Lama

“There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen

“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.” – Brian Tracy

“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Look within, the secret is inside you.” – Hui Neng

“One person with a belief is worth a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mills

“Teamwork is the long word for success.” – Jacquelinemae A. Rudd
“One step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” – Scott Reed
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.” – Dennis Waitley
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” – William James
“Even dust can become a proverb.” – Japanese proverb
“Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.” – W. Clement Stone
“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.” – Yogi Berra
“Hope costs nothing.” – Colette
“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.” – Bunker Hunt
“On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.” – The Bhagavad Gita
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” – Charles Buxton
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” – Les Brown
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” – Sir Isaac Newton
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
“If you want to go east, don’t go west.” – Ramakrishna
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, them just feed one.” – Mother Theresa
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“Knowledge is not information, it’s transformation.” – Osho
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.” – Calvin Coolidge
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” – Dalai Lama
“There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen
“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.” – Brian Tracy
“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Look within, the secret is inside you.” – Hui Neng
“One person with a belief is worth a force of 99 who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mills
 

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