quotes about Insperational
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People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.
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In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.
-- Albert Einstein -
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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You can't test courage cautiously.
-- Annie DillardSource : Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
-- Aristotle OnassisSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
-- Bob Hope -
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
-- Brian Tracy -
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
-- Charles de Lint -
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.
-- Deborah Smith -
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
-- Edward AbbeySource : Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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I understand small business growth. I was one.
-- George W. Bush -
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Try a little harder to be a little better.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
-- Henry Ford -
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
-- Jack WelchSource : "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.
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motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.
-- Jim Rohn -
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 -
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
-- Josh Billings -
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
-- Laird Hamilton -
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
-- Lewis CarrollSource : Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
-- Lucille Ball -
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.
-- Margaret Becker -
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
-- Maya Angelou -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
-- Maya Angelou -
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
-- Ralph ConnorSource : Ralph Connor (1917). “The Major”
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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
-- Richard Paul Evans -
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
-- Robert H. Schuller -
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
-- Stephen Covey -
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
-- Stephen Covey -
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Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
-- Tom Peters -
To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.
-- Tony Gaskins -
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
-- Warren Buffett -
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
-- Winston Churchill -
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
-- Zig Ziglar -
The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
-- Mike Dooley -
Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
-- Steve Goodier