Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a ...1

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.3

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

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I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

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Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

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You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

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I sustain myself with the love of family.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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Independence is happiness.

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Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.

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I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

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The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

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Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

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Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

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The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat.  That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were.  The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat.  So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.

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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

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When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

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The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

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To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

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So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

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You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

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Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

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Run like hell and get the agony over with.

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There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

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We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.64

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

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I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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A wise man travels to discover himself.

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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

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Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.

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Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

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For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

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Karaoke is the great equalizer.

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The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

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I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

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You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

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Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

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It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

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The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

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