1500inspirational Quate

1500 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
Compiled by Savio DSilva
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn. -
Unknown
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya
Angelou
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat
others. - Ayn Rand
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. - Rita Mae
Brown
A dream is a wish your heart makes. - The Supremes
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -
John Lennon
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. -
Elbert Hubbard
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. - Helen
Keller
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer -
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. - Proverb
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -
Charles M. Schwab
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in
between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. - Raymond Hitchcock
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. -
Charles Darwin
1500 Inspirational Quotes compiled by Savio DSilva. Visit www.saviodsilva.com
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. -
Rabindranath Tagore
A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open. - Frank Zappa
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely
uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in
nature are dark except where exposed by the light. - Leonardo da Vinci
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees
both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on
them. - Leonard Louis Levinson
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty. - Churchill
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. - George S. Patton
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - William Shedd
A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home. - Source
Unknown
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out
something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts
inspiration. - Edmondo De Amicis
A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb
Above all to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare
According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly either, but the
bumblebee doesn't know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes
ahead and flies anyway. - Igor Sikorsky
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the
enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. - Lafcadio Hearn
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -
Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -
Benjamin Disraeli
Actions speak louder than words. - Proverb
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of
inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also
brings you peace. - Cecilia Bartoli
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an
extraordinary destiny. - C.S. Lewis
After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible
source of inspiration. - Tracy Chapman
After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have
to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your
inspiration. - Elvis Stojko
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? - Robert
Browning
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and
regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame
does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to
explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel
guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing
whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. - Wayne Dyer
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to
modify the characters so they fit with the story. - Nicholas Sparks
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack
Kerouac
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. - Winston
Churchill
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All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt
Disney
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. - Demosthenes
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an
evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - Siddhartha Gautama
All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes,
empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than
God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you
first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater
than ourselves to do it. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always desire to learn something useful. - Sophocles
Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino
Always remember money is not everything but make sure that you have made
enough before talking such nonsense. - Bill Gate
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive
information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic
Epiphany. - Nick Cave
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can
never be wrong, even if no one hears it. - Mahatma Gandhi
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. -
Pope John Paul I
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid
furniture. - Source Unknown
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an

inconvenience rightly considered. - G.K. Chesterton
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any
man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the
knowledge that you come from honest blood. - John Sergeant Wise
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one
can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's
story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and
keeping as fit as you can. - Grete Waitz
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that
he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. - John Philip Sousa
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm - Unknown
Anything Is Possible. - Origin Unknown
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as

well. - Voltaire
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. - The Bible
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He

suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that
many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. - Carl Van Vechten
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -
Nelson Mandela
As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing
that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you. - Karen
Clodfelder
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened
unto you. - The Bible
At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. - Christopher

Reeve
At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - Johann

Wolfgang von Goethe
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Sir Winston Churchill
Attitude is everything. - Origin Unknown
Be all you can be. - US Army
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is
there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come. - C.S. Lewis
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. - Saint Teresa of Avila
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Origin Unknown
Be here now. - Ram Dass
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your
character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think
you are. - John Wooden
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb
Be the best that you can be. - Origin Unknown
Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne
Be yourself, who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will
say, She doesn't have what it takes. They will say, Women don't have what it takes. -
Clare Boothe Luce
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an
inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and
words naturally. - Cat Stevens
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. - Duncan Sheik
Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a
goal you can set for yourselves. - Bryan Lindsay
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in
hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. - Ernest Newman
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Before a painter put brush to canvas, he sees his picture mentally ... If you think of .:
in terms of a painting, what do you see? Is the picture you think worth painting? ...
You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. - Thomas Dreier
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to
be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration
becomes something that's really worthwhile. - Jim Carrey
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. - German Proverb
Begin with the end in mind. - Doug Flynn
Behold this day for it is yours to make. - Black Elk
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college
degree. - Marian Edelman
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it

permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Kettering
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman
Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. - Origin Unknown
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe,
your mind will find ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. - Dr
David Schwartz
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
Believing requires action. - James E. Faust
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand
and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. - Jose
Ortega y Gasset
Better late than never - Proverb
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever
remains to them? - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be
amused. - Origin Unknown
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting - -
Elizabeth Bibesco
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. - Seneca
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my
nineteenth year. - Georg Brandes
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your
feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams… - William Butler Yeats
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well,
have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in,
of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was
done many thousands of years ago. - Arne Jacobsen
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! - Charlotte Brontë
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. - Rabindranath
Tagore
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work
twelve hours a day- Robert Frost
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.) - Latin
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by
intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. - Eileen Caddy
Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so
seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always
show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. - Sam
Walton (founder of Walmart)
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that
really was an inspiration. - Birch Bayh
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Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have
deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will.
But the will must be stronger than the skill. - - Muhammad Ali
Chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
Change comes from within. - Origin Unknown
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you
could become. - Winston Churchill
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are
certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy
Change your thoughts, change your life. - James Allen
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial
and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved - Helen Keller
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your the blueprints
of your ultimate achievements. - Napolean Hill
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -
particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas
from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. - Thor Heyerdahl
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall! Come to the
edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Guillaume Apollinaire
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is

success. - Origin Unknown
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they
ought to be done. - Josh Billings
Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong -
Unknown
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being
open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a
boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. - Henri Frederic Amiel
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Count Your Blessings. - Og Mandino
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're
scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is
more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by
itself. - Swami Sivananda
Create like a god; command like a king; work like a slave. - Constantin Brancusi
Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. - Kenya Hara
Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative
people. - Leo Burnett
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. - David Farragut
Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt
before, sing as though no one can hear you,live as though heaven is on earth. -
Souza.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure - George E
Woodberry
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. - Helen Keller
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen
pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. - Spinoza
Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice. It is not something to be

waited for, But rather something to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about
her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class. - Beyonce Knowles
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by
conflict. - William Ellery Channing
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun. -
Ang Lee
Discipline isn't on your back needling you with imperatives. It is at your side
encouraging you with incentives. - Cybil Stanton
Do first things first, and second things not at all. - Peter Drucker.
Do it Now! - Napoleon Hill
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand. - Zululand Proverb
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not learn from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of others to that you do not
make any. - Sean Karsten
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of
your model. - Vincent Van Gogh
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my
poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you
are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be
thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in
the world, and thus become pure and perfect. - Swami Vivekananda
Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague
Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As
soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if
you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. - C.S. Lewis
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St
Francis of De Sales
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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will
contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you
follow your inspiration freely. - Vissarion Belinsky
Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. - The Bible
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are! - Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you love and the money will follow - Marsha Sinetar
Do what you love to do and commit to doing it in an excellent fashion. - Brian Tracy
Do what you say so others will say what you do - Robert H. Connelly
Don’t count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and
smell the flowers. - Walter Hagen
Don’t let someone be a priority in your life when u are still an option in their life. -
Unknown
Don’t make me walk when I want to fly. - Galina Doyla
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours
per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea,
Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. - Thomas
Jefferson
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish
for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. - Earl Shoaf
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. -
Abraham Lincoln
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come
alive. - Harold Whitman
Don't ask, don't tell. Everything lies in silence. - Source Unknown
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two
small jumps. - David Lloyd George
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself. - William Faulkner
Don't dream it be it. - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Don't ever give up. - Origin Unknown
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny -
Kathryn Carpenter
Don't go through life grow through life - Eric Butterworth
Don't hide your light under a bushel. - The Bible
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try - Unknown
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was. - Richard L. Evans
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams! - Origin Unknown
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or
even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that
shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. - Billy Joel
Don't postpone joy. - Bumper Sticker
Don't quit. - Origin Unknown
Don't sweat the small stuff. - Richard Carlson
Don't take life to seriously because you'll never get out alive - Josh Shippe
Don't try to great in all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the best you
can. - Liz Ashe
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made
of. - Benjamin Franklin
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts. - J.W. Goethe
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Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George
Lucas
Dreams are not without meaning wherever that may come from-from fantasy, from
the elements, or from other inspiration. - Paracelsus
Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them. - Peter Reese
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age - Dale Turner
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the
present circumstances. - Abraham Tucker
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. - George Adams
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -
Charles Swindoll
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to
make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is
dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be
happy in it. - Groucho Marx
Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less
without that missing drop. - Mother Teresa
Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have

to put aside. - Richard David Bach
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration. - Bill Frist
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information. - E.
Franklin Frazier
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the
big things - Antonio Smith
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo

Bennett
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared,

and with it none despised. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born. - Maryanne Radmacher-
Hershey
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. - Victor Kiam
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the
intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. -
Swami Vivekananda
Even the longest hours come to an end. - Jose Raul Bernardo
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett
Every cloud has a silver lining. - Proverb
Every day in every way I am getting better and better. - Origin Unknown
Every dog has his day. - Proverb
Every great inspiration is but an experiment. - Charles Ives
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives - Braveheart (Movie)
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. - Voltaire
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing
agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -
Norman Lindsay
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in
this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you
couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember,
you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back. -
Anonymous
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.'
We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is
alternative, progressive or fusion rock. - Page McConnell
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems,
you don’t get any seeds. – Norman Vincent Peale
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is
ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident. -
Arthur Schoppenhauer
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a
college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to
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serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther
King Jr.
Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find
a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. - David
Cronenberg
Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo. - Dr. Sara Jordan
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid, or frightened,
one swims. This is the only reality there is. - Henry Miller
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story - John Barth
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo
Tolstoy
Everyone who has taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off and does something about it makes a difference. - Nolan Buhnell
Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now. - Robin Gibb
Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end. - Unknown
Everything you need is already inside. Just do it. - Bill Bowerman (Nike)
Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships
you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy
and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and
any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to
others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you
know what you want - Richard Koch
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.. - Albert
Schweitzer
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than
other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more
than others think possible. - Origin Unknown
Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don't
get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying. - Source Unknown
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens
to him. - Aldous Huxley
Experience is the best teacher. - Proverb
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Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. - Dan Stanford
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let
them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no
need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Failing to plan is planning to fail. - Origin Unknown
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
Failure is taking the path that everyone else does; success is making your own path -
Unknown
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote
Faith can move mountains. - Origin Unknown
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -
Hebrews 11:1
Fall seven times, stand up eight! - Japanese Proverb
Families are the compasses that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great
heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. - Brad Henry
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but
I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they
lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory
or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. - Baruch Spinoza
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love
more; And all good things are yours. - Source Unknown
Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert
Einstein
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Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down
some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the
glorious pursuit of life. - Lawrence K. Fish
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. - Shigenori
Kameoka
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -
Epictetus
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. –
Mahatma Gandhi
Focus is a neccesity toward success - Brad Colley
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety
of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. - Sasha Cohen
Follow Your Dreams. - Unknown
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often,
some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The
artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire
them. - Tom Glazer
For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration. - Thomas
Carper
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I
try to write a little bit every day. - Sean Lennon
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me
dream. - Vincent van Gogh
For with God all things are possible. - The Bible
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find
one good reason why it will. - Dr. Robert Anthony
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as

succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will
seek to develop that picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. -
Norman Vincent Peale
Fortune favors the brave. - Terence
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Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering
how to fly. - Unknown
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the
answer. - Ed Cunningham
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought, the poet may at last be
able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. - Eyvind
Johnson
From what we get, we can make a living: from what we give, makes a life. - Arthur
Ashe
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State;
and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to
religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom. - Seth Low
Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing
completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the
different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration. - Alfonso G. Robles
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas

Edison
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will
not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it,
because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just
being good. - Vince Lombardi
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Get busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably
aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason
or another. - Wanda Jackson
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for
a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
Give it all you've got because you never know if there's going to be a next time. -
Danielle Ingrum
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move
the world. - Archimedes
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. - Aristotle
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your
best anyway. - Mother Teresa
Give your work 100% but save the rest for yourself, friends and family - Robert H.
Connelly
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak…sometimes it means that you are
strong enough to let go. - Unknown
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? - Eliza Dushku
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -
Henry David Thoreau
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that
we could learn in no other way. - C.S. Lewis
God doesn't make junk. - Origin Unknown
God never sends us more than we can handle. - Mother Theresa
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to
change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Serenity Prayer
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. -
Jim Horning
Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection. - Joseph R. Cooke
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes
unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. - Peter S. Beagle
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss
people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds have purposes others have wishes. - Washington Irving
Great oaks from little acorns grow - Proverb
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -
Albert Einstein
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a
prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false
knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege
of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. - Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but
which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a Choice. - Barry Neil Kaufman
Happiness is a journey, not a destination. - Father Alfred D’Souza
Happiness is a state of mind. - Origin Unknown
Happiness is not a destination in which you arrive; it is your journey there. If you
haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you
wouldn't want. - Anonymous.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai
Lama XIV
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design
for the present. - Zig Ziglar
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony -
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Happiness writes white. It does not show up on the page. - Henry de Montherlant
Hard work pays off. - Origin Unknown
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort,
and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. - Eugen
Herrigel
He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what
sense they have. - C.S. Lewis
He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin
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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question
remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb
He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has
found the sunny side of life. - Spurgeon
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Origin
Unknown
He who hesitates is lost! - Proverb
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. - Martin
Luther King
He who never made a mistake has never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
He who stops being better, stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of
people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have
mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. - William Feather
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? -
Benjamin Franklin
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. - Lord John Worfin
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly -
Langston Hughes
Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this
world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of
hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in
disappointment. - Samuel Johnson
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone

external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. - Dr.
Robert Anthony
Hope springs eternal. - Alexander Pope
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? -
Anthony Robbins
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How can you be free from fears? Fear no one, but love every man that you see. We
are living in fear because our mind holds negative thoughts about people. Are you
afraid of your loved ones? - Ty Luu
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and
keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what
really matters most. - Stephen R. Covey
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the
strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George
Washington Carver
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to
improve the world. - Anne Frank
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you
become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they
do you if you do not act on upon them? - Siddhartha Gautama
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and
insanity for centuries. - Patty Duke
Human requirements are the inspiration for art. - Stephen Gardiner
Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold onto
happiness. - Momoko Ryugasaki
Hunker down. - Origin Unknown
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character. - Robert
Englund
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great
novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. - Winston Churchill
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else.
You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can
draw inspiration from people. - Amanda Burton
I always try to try my hardest to the point where my sprint becomes a run, my run
becomes a jog, my jog becomes a walk - Robert Ervin
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I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it. -
Thomas Jefferson
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston
Churchill
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow,
misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
- Charles Fletcher Lummis
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more

important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -
Albert Einstein
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to
a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest
mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. - Og Mandino
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald
Reagan. - Michael K. Simpson
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step

forward. - Thomas A. Edison
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines; nothing brings on inspiration

more readily than desperation. - Harry Shearer
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can
do. – Hellen Keller
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer

in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an
entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and
faith to be a transforming leader. - Stephen R. Covey
I am the captain of my soul. - William Ernest Henley
I am totally in the hands of the Lord. - Gordon B. Hinckley
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than
to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H.L. Mencken
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public
service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not
degradation. - Andrew Cuomo
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I
wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. -
Neil Diamond
I can tell you how to get what you want: You've got to keep a thing in view and go
for it and never let your eyes wonder to the left or right or up or down. And looking
back is fatal. - William J Lock
I can, therefore I am. - Simone Weil
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old
ones. - John Cage
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind
of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't
occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. - Margaret Anderson
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given,

straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an
intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on
the balcony. Nothing doing! - Henry Miller
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I believe in a fate
that falls on men unless they act. - G.K. Chesterton
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am
lost. - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -
Bill Cosby
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises

directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha
Christie
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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be
better than you ever thought you could be. - Ken Venturi
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. - Eliot Spitzer
I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. - Lorrie Fair
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone - Bill
Cosby
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is

so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the
audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it? - John
Davidson
I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that
count. - Robert Lloyd
I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. - Robert Mapplethorpe
I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no
answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What
other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other
words. - C.S. Lewis
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or
any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not
defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the
failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. - Dave Matthews
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of
inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. - Don DeLillo
I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. - Donnie Iris
I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it. - Picabo Street
I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the
motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be
convincing. It's the same career. - Anne Parillaud
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had
no feet. - Ancient Persian Saying
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t
work out, that’s when I’ve really learned. - Carol Burnett
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and
Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. - Judy Collins
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we
do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights
above our own. - Maria Mitchell
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. - Thomas Alva Edison
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about
living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves. - Teri
Garr
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our
music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. - Maynard James
Keenan
I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. - Leigh Steinberg
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really
good at heart. - Anne Frank
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so
much. - Mother Teresa
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to

elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that
will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people
out and work. - Wyclef Jean
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked
with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand
thing. - Agatha Christie
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me:
the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. - Jerome K. Jerome
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I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world. - Rainer Maria Rilke
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
I long to speak out about the intense inspiration that comes to me, from the lives of
strong women. - Ruth Benedict
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. - Graeme
Murphy
I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the
motivation to continue. - Donna Dixon
I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he
tell me what to do. - Bob Marley
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the
need flows out of me all the time - waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God - it
changes me. - C.S. Lewis
I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff
that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for
the role. - Deborah Cox
I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be
done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a
new momentum. - Hermann Maier
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
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God
declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people. - John Henry Newman
I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever

people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the
country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I
believe is wrong. - Peter King
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the
passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out
of doing what you do that motivates you. - Martin Yan
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein
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I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like
Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody
to try to create jazz. - Sonny Rollins
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a
Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has
to be the same way for me. - Buddy Rich
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first
place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality. -
Marilyn vos Savant
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper
article and come up with an idea for a book. - Jackie Collins
I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and
failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do
this'. - Howard Schultz
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s,
a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our
music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns. - Alex Lifeson
I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a
chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say
that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD. - Deborah Cox
I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? -
Peter Tosh
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction
that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if
you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
- Markus Wolf
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides
the motivation for their actions. - Sidney Sheldon
I used to say 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things
are going to change for me is when I change. - Jim Rohn
I want to continue my growth in every way. - Marilyn Monroe
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a
day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came
here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I
needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his
example. - Mario Cuomo
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
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. - Origin Unknown
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not

admiration. - Orson Scott Card
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make
mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. - Britney
Spears
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part
of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a
long way to making a champion. - Major Taylor
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a

sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. -
Jack London
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony,
style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he
provides for his spouse. - Benjamin Spock
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music,
singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was
my big inspiration. - Jackie DeShannon
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. - Roald Dahl
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games.26 times
I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and
over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and
services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a
sustainable one. - Daryl Hannah
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I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are
going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. -
Rob Morrow
I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I
got so involved in boxing. - Alexis Arguello
I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked
them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration. - Colleen
Atwood
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead
If a man does his best, what else is there? - George S. Patton
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. - Henry David Thoreau
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as

Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote
poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will
pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is
violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere
else if movies didn't exist. - Richard King
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But
when they seldom come, they wished for come. - William Shakespeare
If at first you don't succeed, try again. - W.C Fields
If God gave us all good days, how would we learn from our mistakes? - Unknown
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not
now, when? - Rabbi Hillel
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire
evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. - Source Unknown
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a
plumber today. - Barry Mann
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly
metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. - Ben Harper
IF it is to be it is up to me. - Origin Unknown
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. - Joan Collins
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security
that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. - Placido

Domingo
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And
though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full,
and you can give things out of that. - Frances Burnett
If not us, who, if not now, when? - Origin Unknown
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the
life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common
hours. - Henry David Thoreau
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what
the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the
world. - Joan Boysenko
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation,
then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient. -
Greg Ginn
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand
it's not the things, its travel and experiencing different environments. - Marc Newson
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him
up. What he needs is education to turn him around. - Jim Rohn
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill. - Unknown
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to
the wrong place faster. - Stephen R. Covey
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -
Abraham Maslow
If the path less traveled were the easy path, then all would take it, thus making
greatness simply average. - Shawn Eckert
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go
somewhere else. - Tom Wilkinson
If there is a will, there is a way. - Origin Unknown
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas A.
Edison
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail
Sheehy
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes
taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Brads
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist

attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability
and motivation to carry out such an operation. - Dorothy Denning
If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose. - Unknown
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave
the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected
in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always
gotten. - Origin Unknown
If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong
enough for you. …Everyone says, Woe unto you people!! Who says, Woe unto me
that I cannot help you? The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and
means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am! - Swami
Vivekananda
If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
If you aren't fired by enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi
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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most
reassuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -
Denis Waitley
If you build it, he will come. - Field of Dreams (Movie)
If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -
William A. Ward
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. - David Carradine
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around
two blocks-but never three. - Robert Motherwell
If you can't you must, and if you must you can. - Anthony Robbins
If you do not have a well thought out plan for your life, you will live a mediocre life -
Savio DSilva
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer
is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. - Nora
Roberts
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's
plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. - Jim Rohn
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer
is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora
Roberts
If you don't like something, change it, If you can't change it, change your attitude. -
Maya Angelou
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. - Unknown
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - Will Rogers
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
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If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have
that you don't want. - Anonymous
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and
that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a
prophet. - Isaac B. Singer
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics,
character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30%
managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. - Dee Hock
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. - Noel Coward
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - Somerset
Maugham
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your
strength and understanding will increase. - James E. Faust
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like
to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who
thinks he can. - Origin Unknown
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile
down the street. - Ben Nicholas
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. - Jimmy Durante
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. -
Origin Unknown
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one
year ago today. - E. Joseph Cossman
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are
the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. - Mark
Houlahan
If you’re going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might
as well laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation,
don’t worry it’ll change. - John A. Simone, Sr
If you’ve been going through life as a sleepwalker, it’s time to wake up. The journey
begins right now. - Chris Guillebeau
If you're young you are lucky. If you're old you are even luckier - Robert H. Connelly
If youth knew; if age could. - Sigmund Freud
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go
nowhere. - Carl Sagan
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not
the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. - John
Lennon
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you
can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore
Roosevelt
In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed. - Sid Caesar
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words
came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the
meaning. - Utada Hikaru
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for
a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we
cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. - Adam Schiff
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. - Larry Niven
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In life you need either inspiration or desperation. - Tony Robbins
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -
Thomas Jefferson
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or

principle contain it or stand against it. - Jane Smiley
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good
qualities in action - Aristotle
In the depth of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer. - Albert
Careb
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -
Abraham Lincoln
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time
on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. - Albert
Camus
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. -

William J. Clinton
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the
word idea in the arts. - Lukas Foss
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From
social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be
that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social
one. - Andrzej Wajda
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the
most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a
well-defined meaning - H. A. Kramers
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.- Robert
Frost
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material
development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act
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upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be
Gods. Be and Make. Let this be our motto. - Swami Vivekananda
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. - John Updike
Inspiration comes from all different places. - Jeffrey Katzenberg
Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. - Ned
Rorem
Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is
something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it. - Joan Armatrading
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. - Pablo Picasso
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the
senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. -

Jean Anouilh
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested

in all high artistic achievements. - Giacomo Puccini
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the
song is without words. - Franz Liszt
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. - Ram Dass
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship
moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. - Kevin Eubanks
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub consciousness I

wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. - Aaron
Copland
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. - C.S. Lewis
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and

2% butterscotch ripple. - Gene Wilder
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so
they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation
has been very different. - Hans Blix
Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet
become lords of a single one? - Alexander the Great
It ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving
forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is
done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. -
Rocky Balboa
It ain't over till it's over. - Yogi Berra
It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can
control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation. - Monica Seles
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others
waste time. - Henry Ford
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration
of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and
remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
It is by nature to hate those you injure - Unknown
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try
another, but above all try something. - Franklin Roosevelt
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat
that makes men invincible. - Henry Ward Beecher
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. -
Judith Martin
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that things are difficult. – Seneca
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Rene
Descartes
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how
much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - Mother Teresa
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
It is not what you do that matters it is what you don't do that really matters at the
end of the day. - Source Unknown
It is often interesting, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. -
Patricia Moyes
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -
Professor Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter Movie)
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete
but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and
inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. - Herb Elliott
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning
on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it
is there our future prosperity lies. - Hugh MacDiarmid
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans
among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. -
Bettie Page
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated

communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. - Erma Bombeck
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and
gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain
positive. - Lil' Kim
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It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. -
Julian Clary
It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song, but the man
worthwhile is the man with a smile, when everything goes dead wrong. - Author
Unknown.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. - Lena Horne
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. - Vince
Lombardi
It's a funny thing about life; if You refuse to accept anything but the best-You very
often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham
It's always darkest before the dawn. - Origin Unknown
It's always too early to quit. - Norman Vincent Peale
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference - Tom Brokaw
It's hard to see where you are going when your lights are dim - Robert H. Connelly
It's hard when others demand too much from you. It's even harder when you
demand too much from yourself - Robert H. Connelly
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
It's never too late! - Origin Unknown
It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration
music from the '60s and '70s has been. - Alicia Keys
It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. -
W. Mitchell
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up. - Vince
Lombardi
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying
not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember
reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. - Jonny Greenwood
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not

discernible at the beginning. - Igor Stravinsky
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national
literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people
from whom it derives its inspiration. - James Connolly
Just Do it! - Nike
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and
inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! - Dr. Seuss
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their
lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
- Michael N. Castle
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark
Twain
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when
you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something
sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
Keep the Faith. - Origin Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. - Helen Keller
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -
Mother Teresa
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu
Know or listen to those who know. - Baltasar Gracian
Know thyself. - Socrates
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. -
Flower A. Newhouse
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a
remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you
to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your
predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is
certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously. - Og Mandino
Laughter is the best medicine. - Origin Unknown
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from
the person who fails. - Robert Half
Lead follow or get out of the way! - Thomas Paine
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done
because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leap, and the net will appear. - John Burroughs
Learn from others, as you would learn from your own mistakes. - Kazi Shams
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
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled
by your own judgment. - Ralph Marston
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let
me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. - Tagore
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my
tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or woman
can do abut the enormous array of the world's ills-against misery and ignorance,
injustice and violence...Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of
us can change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of
the obvious. - Charles Baudelaire
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little,
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - Siddhartha Gautama
Let's Roll. - Todd Beamer
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. - Neal Donald Walsch
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny
Kaye
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller
Life is divine chaos, embrace it. - Unknown
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. - Helen Keller
Life is like a ball; the harder you drop, the higher you will bounce - Savio DSilva
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. - Peace Pilgrim
Life is like a roller coaster ride with its unexpected twists and turns. Sometimes the G-
force of our challenges feels like it’s more than we can bear. At times we feel
terrified as if we’re dropping straight down, with no support. We’re already here for
the ride, so we might as well enjoy …every minute of it, and have faith that we will
dock safe and secure. Just like we always have in the past. - Nick Mansilla
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of
for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations - George Bernard Shaw
Life is not a rat race, and you are not a rat. - Savio DSilva
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
something and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie
Curie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that
take our breath away. - Origin Unknown
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Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the
rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of
summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a
stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain
peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of
visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things. - Ikeda
Life is what you make it. - Origin Unknown
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard
Shaw
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin
Light tomorrow with today - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Like the light in the dark of dismal night,Let your self stand out as glowing, warm, and
welcome - Validivar
Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma
Gandhi
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town
gossip. - Will Rogers
Live life to the fullest - Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life with passion - Origin Unknown
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much. - Origin Unknown
Live with passion. - Anthony Robbins
Live your Dreams. - Les Brown
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother
Teresa
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
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Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. -
Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who
will take the bus when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey
Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never. - Author Unknown
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all
relationships. - Jodie Foster
Love conquers all. - Virgil
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl A.
Menninger
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the
same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is a bird, she needs to fly. - Madonna
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it
disappear. - John Lennon
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers
eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most
discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though
heaven is on earth. - Satchel Paige
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. - Ray Croc
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity - Brian Tracy
Luxury, rather than necessity, is the mother of invention. - Henry Petroski
Make each day your masterpiece. - John Wooden
Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but
something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the
inspiration of men. - Wilford O. Cross
Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself
that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming
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incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall
surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. –
Mahatma Gandhi
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness, have few desires. - Lao
Tzu
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a
long separation. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many hands make light work. - Proverb
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone
else thought they could. - Source Unknown
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. - Publilius Syrus
May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow
each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart
with gladness to cheer you. - Irish Blessing
May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil
our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness,
let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy
without the things we cannot or should not have. - Richard L. Evans
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds! Shine. - Buddha
Memorize and follow this never-fail recipe: get started. Don’t quit. - Barbara Winter
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their
victories. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. - Benjamin

Cardozo
Minds are like parachutes they only function when they are open. - Thomas Dewar
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real
excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports. - Katarina Witt
More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t
take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t. – Anonymous
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a
man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the
parade is a mile down the street. - Ben Nicholas
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. - Shelby
Foote
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we
should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Marden
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening
hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with
parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the
voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. - T.S. Eliot
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. - Abraham
Lincoln
Most people are too busy earning a living to make any money. - Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a
second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that
comes out of you. - William James
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain
doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more
empathic father. - Daniel Goleman
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen Covey
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two
people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to
inspire his people. - Lido Anthony Lee Lacocca
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. - Lou Holtz
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because
they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman Ralph Augustine
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my
inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here
he is fifty-something years old. - Jimmy Chamberlin
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was
certainly quite an inspiration. - John L. Phillips
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me. - Julian Lennon
My inspiration is the woman, friendship, and loneliness. - Enrique Iglesias
My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. - Nomar
Garciaparra
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life
experiences. - Fred Durst
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it
with strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. - Carly Fiorina
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but
because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about. - Herman
Cain
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she
started dating one my teachers! - Meg Cabot
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. - Cole Porter
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make
you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. - Joseph Conrad
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true
or not is irrelevant. - Michael Shermer
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the
day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power. - Abraham Lincoln
Necessity is the mother of invention. - Proverb
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds - Buddha
Never be afraid to try, remember…Amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the
Titanic. - Unknown
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no
one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. - A. Milne
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never in nothing, great or small,
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -
Churchill
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up - Reverend Jesse
Jackson
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you
will not meet again in this life. - Jean Richter
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. - Thomas Jefferson
Never Quit - Unknown
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. - Victoria Holt
Never stop dreaming. - Origin Unknown
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius. - Georges-Louis Leclere De Buffon
Never think you can't achieve. After all, it only took one acorn. - Bobby MacKinnon
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig - Mark
Twain
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Never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making
excuses. - George Washington Carver
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss. - Proverb Eddings
No day is too bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. - Carrie Snow
No good deed goes unpunished. - Alan Ross
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy
in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration
and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. - Roger Williams
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought
comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart. It comes from
being alive. - Richard Carlson
No one knows what he can do until he tries - Publilius Syrus
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Marcus Tullius
Cicero
No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an
unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater
tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a
market for that job skill. Back in those dark depression days I saw my father on a
Christmas eve open what he thought was a Christmas greeting from his boss.
Instead, it was the blue slip telling him he no longer had a job. The memory of him
sitting there holding that slip of paper and then saying in a half whisper, ‘That’s quite
a Christmas present,’ it will stay with me as long as I live. - Ronald Reagan
No one wishes to be old until the chance to is taken away - Robert H. Connelly
No pain, No gain. - Origin Unknown
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered

land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller
No pressure, no diamonds. - Mary Case
Nobody ever drowned in sweat - US Marine saying
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting
their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your
self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -
Douglas MacArthur
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they would get, but if you work hard
and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. - Conan O’Brien
Nobody remembers the person who conformed out of inadequacy. Nobody

notices a patch of grass, they see the tree - Wayne Burrow, Philosopher.
Not only strike when the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. - Oliver Cromwell
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on
a limited set of targets - Nido Qubein
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas
Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg
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; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is but what is not - Shakespeare
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - John Keywood
Nothing is impossible, just hard or difficult. - Ben Caulfield
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that
something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. - Origin Unknown
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -
Guillaume Apollinaire
Now that I'm gone, I tell you; don’t smoke. Whatever you do, don't smoke. - Yul
Brynner
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you
think. - Benjamin Disraeli
Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. - Walt Whitman
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -
Henry Ford
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to
a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give
up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is
weaker than man. - Homer (The Odyssey)
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so
powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream
and think and work. - Charles Sawyer
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on
ourselves. - Unknown
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how',
while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always
preferred inspiration to information. - Man Ray
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem
dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. - Emily Carr
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. - Christopher Reeve
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't
lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. - Boris Vian
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration
dried up, the muses fled. - Charles de Lint
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. - Thomas Fuller
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid
that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a
complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. - Russell Banks
One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have
no inspiration left. - Trevor Rabin
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -
Peter Marshall
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at
things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on
things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. -
Edward de Bono
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything - Unknown
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living. - Albert Einstein
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are
because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us. -
Stephen R. Covey
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. -
Albert Camus
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Only the educated are free. - Epictetus
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S.
Eillot
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are. -
Bill Gates
Open wide the mind’s cage-door. - John Keats
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize
them. - Ann Landers
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work - Thomas Edison
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope
or confidence. - Helen Keller
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked
why not. - Pablo Picasso
Our aspirations are our possibilities. - Robert Browning
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. - Marianne Williamson
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. -
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance
has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health,
occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson
Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show
for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever
and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Origin Unknown
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music.
He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic.
These pieces of music were sources of inspiration. - Madeleine Stowe
Peace begins with a smile - Mother Teresa
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and
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look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. -
George Bernard Shaw
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from
within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Unknown.
People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. Why do you do what you
do? - Valetine Belonwu
People don't care how much you know until they know how much they care. - John
C. Maxwell
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything
without desperation. - Jim Carrey
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why
we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of
character.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle
dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that
plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. -
Romana L. Anderson
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all
the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use
excuses all the time. - Mike Ditka
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work
does what we wants to do. - R.G. Collingwood
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. - Walter
Elliot
Persistence: Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb
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Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's
an inspiration an actor gets from the stage. - Jude Law
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Sir
Winston Churchill
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. - Vince Lombardi
Practice makes perfect. - Unknown
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty - Adair Lara
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. - Robert H. Schuller
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -
Albert Einstein
Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. -
Christian Larson
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle
Reach for the stars. - Unknown
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes
the goal. - Unknown
Reach up as far as you can and God will help you reach the rest of the way. - Greg
Hickman
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. - Anthony Burgess
Reading without reflection is like eating without digestion. - Edmund Burke
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
Realize that true happiness lies within you. - Lucian
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we
did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney Harris
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. - Swami Vivekananda
Remember always that it is your concentrated purpose [determination] to reach

what you want, your faith that you WILL reach what you want and your doing
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successfully everything you have to do which keeps you moving towards your goal -
W.D. Wattles
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy Goodman
Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show
their strength and their stability. - Ho Chi Minh
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your
arm.... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping
yourself, the other for helping others. - Audrey Hepburn
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. Thats why its a comfort to go hand in
hand. - Emily Kimbrough
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first
to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. - Dan Zadra
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises
the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. - Author Unknown
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. - Mario Fernandez
Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away,
Live to fight another day! - Bob Marley
Rise to the occasion which is life! - Virginia Euwer Wolff
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and
comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else? -
Alex Noble
Roll with the punches. - Origin Unknown
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of
philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. -
Emanuel Celler
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all

those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. -
Bob Filner
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. - Kenichi
Ohmae
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the
torch which illuminates the world. - Louis Pasteur
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men
as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. - Helen Keller
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. - Wystan Hugh
Seek first to understand, then be understood - Stephen Covey
Seize the day - Unknown
Self esteem is the reputation we gain within ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something
you do in your spare time - Marion Wright Edelman
Service is what life is all about. - Marian Edelman
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
She soars on her own wings. - Socrates
She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. - Ethiopian Proverb
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown
Slow but steady wins the race. - Origin Unknown
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. - Peter Marshall
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
Smile! And the world will smile with you! - Origin Unknown
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do
when they stick together. - Vista M. Kelly
So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and
the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So
there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. - Talib Kweli
So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the
greatest principles of success; If I persist long enough I will win. - Og Mandino
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So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to
each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the
thing that allows me to keep writing. - Joan Armatrading
Some people are destined to succeed, others are determined to succeed. - Savio
DSilva
Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. - Elizabeth
Bowen
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave
footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. - Origin Unknown
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. -
Unknown
Someday is now. - Gaddy Bergmann
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we
shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of
the world, man will have discovered fire. - Teilhard de Chardin
Someone once asked me what is the hardest part about creating what you want?
My reply was learning to stop figuring out how you will get what you want. - Jim
Rohn
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a
long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration. - Ken Hill
Sometimes our flame goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an
encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each
of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything
except tears. – Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes what people need to hear, are simple words which can heal. - Dhanti
Praspani
Sometimes you must fight and win, just because all the pain and suffering you
experienced up to this point on your quest would be rendered futile if you were to
surrender now. - Alvin Day
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Richard Bach
Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. -
Lawrence J. Peter
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop
withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is
a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. - Mary Manin
Morrissey
Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history. - Ben
Sobel
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.When
you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Mahatma
Gandhi
Strike while the iron is hot. - Proverb
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. - Harriet
Braiker
Success and rest don’t sleep together. - Russian proverb
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well. - Unknown
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it. - Marva Collins
Success is a journey not a destination. - Ben Sweetland
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill
Gates
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson
Success is determined by how determined you are to succeed. - Unknown
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Abraham
Lincoln
Success is never final. You have to take the glory in the pursuing rather than the
capturing. - Herb Keller
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -
Winston Churchill
Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. - Albert
Schweitzer
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - T.
S. Eliot
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -
Winston Churchill
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T.
Washington
Success Leaves Clues - Jim Rohn
Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier. - Bruce Springsteen
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They
make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -
William Feather
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. - English Proverb
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea.
Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just
leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -
Arthur Schopenhauer
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. - Rudolf Nureyev
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to
do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because
then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something. - Karl Urban
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is
dead, to be an inspiration for history. - William McKinley
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The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian
Tracy
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller
The best dreams happen when you’re awake. - Cherie Gilderbloom
The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for
each other. - Origin Unknown
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Abraham
Lincoln
The best things in life are free. - Origin Unknown
The best things in life aren’t things. - Art Buchwald
The best way out is always through.- Robert Frost
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter F. Drucker
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your
own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You
realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. -
George Santayana
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling,
and understanding. - Willie Dixon
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to
build. - Thomas Keller
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. -
Gene Brown
The buck stops here. - Harry Truman
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The country clubs, the cars the boats, your assets may be ample, But the best
inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example. - Barry Spilchuk
The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena...who know the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who, at best, know the
triumph of high achievement; and who,at worst, fail while daring greatly, so that
their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory
nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real
and the universal is not. - C.S. Lewis
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. - Khalil
Gibran
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results - Albert Einstein
The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, not a
lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s
determination. - Tommy Lasorda
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the world’s problems - Mahatma Gandhi
The distinguishing mark of true adventures is that it is often no fun at all while they
are actually happening. - Kim Stanley Robinson
The dog that trots about finds a bone. - Golda Meir
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source
of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to
hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his
enemy. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it
derives much of its inspiration and character. - Stephen Gardiner
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay
where you are. - John Pierpoint
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - J.
Robert Oppenheimer
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -
Confucius
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing
to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences,
carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. - Origin Unknown
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God s love for
us does not. - C.S. Lewis
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Moliere
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by
altering their attitudes of mind. - William James
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to
reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest mistake you can make in life continually fearing that you'll make one. -
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem
and turned it into an opportunity. - Joseph Sugarman
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and
the Teenagers. - Eddie Floyd
The harder I work, the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine
The harder you fall the higher you bounce. - Horace
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi
The harder you work, the luckier you get. - Samuel Goldwyn
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they
become by it. - John Ruskin
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The important thing is to not stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
The important thing is to take a chance, feel the fear and do it anyway. Remember,
the greatest failure is not doing. Once you find something you love to do, be the
best at doing it. So feel the fear and do it anyway. - Keith Cook
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite
unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an
experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. - Bede
Griffiths
The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding. - Bible
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who
reads it. - Robert Green Ingersoll
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get
itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me
and need to be written down. - Eric Brown
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step - Miyamoto Musashi
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls
forth your best. - Epictetus
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by
smashing it open. - Arnold Glasgow
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. -
Voltaire
The Main Thing is to keep the Main Thing the Main Thing. - Stephen Covey
The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese
Proverb
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes
about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be
an inspiration to this day. - Justin Timberlake
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would

never be found out. - T.B. Macaulay
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of
wealth, but men of deeds. - James Cash Penney
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world,
but to change it - Colin Wilson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
The moon lives in the lining of your skin. - Pablo Neruda
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
The more man meditates upon good thoughts; the better will be his world and the
world at large. - Confucius
The more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas
contained in those words. - Oprah Winfrey
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer
pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. -
Albert Einstein
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have
any. – Alice Walker
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -
Origin Unknown
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a
goal. - Francie Larrieu Smith
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter - E.E. Cummings
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human
factors of discipline. - Jerome Hines
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes
automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have
to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that
very difficult. - Beth Gibbons
The old black is cold intelligence – the new black is creativity. - Dr. Mark Bately
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was
George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant. - John Kricfalusi
The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and
determination to overcome bad luck. - Channing Pollock
The only limitations in life are the limitations you put on yourself... - Joel McCord
The only one thing I can change is myself, but sometimes that makes all of the
difference. - Source Unknown
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. -
Foster’s Law
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly
enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. - Brian Tracy
The only test of goods things is that they make us strong. - Swami Vivekananda
The only thing better than fixing someone else's problem, is doing it without
complaint - Robert H. Connelly
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't
have any particular goal in sight. - Mike Tyson
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure - Unknown.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can. - Margo
Kaufman
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the
impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to fail is to fail to try. - Jacqueline McLarens
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The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain. - Source Unknown
The oyster turns into pearl the sand which annoys it. - Sidney Newton Bremer
The past couple of years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my
skating. - Kristi Yamaguchi
The past does not equal the future. - Anthony Robbins
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour.
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. - Israel
Zangwill
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my
life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on
purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. - Billy Ray Cyrus
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. -
Anonymous
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing
it. - Chinese proverb
The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is
doing it. - Unknown
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart
withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the
echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad
enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free,
often their motivation is diminished considerably. - John Badham
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and
then work outward from there. - Robert M. Pirsig
The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the
word tomorrow the most. - Robert Kiyosaki
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to
the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem. – Theodore Rubin
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being
filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with
agreeing and harmonious voice. - Lactantius
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to

excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor - Vince Lombardi
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your
money. - Unknown
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than
work.- Robert Frost
The results you're achieving are the ones you've learned to achieve and if you want
to change those results, then you must change the thinking and behaviour that's
responsible for them. - Paul Counsel
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. - Che
Guevara
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The road of success is like running up an escalator going down, you need to keep
running, if you walk, you stand still, if you stop you are going down! - Anneloes
Zuiderveen
The road to success is always under construction. - Lily Tomlin
The secret is developing away from a conciousness that gets what it wants to a
consciousness that wants what it gets. - Jagdish Parikh
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to
worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. -
Siddhartha Gautama
The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the
money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful
result in the accomplishment of the work itself. - Sidney A. Weltmer
The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage… -

Thucydides
The show must go on. - Proverb
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The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our
personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. - Unknown
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak
desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of
heat. - Napoleon Hill
The state of your life is nothing but a reflection of the state of your mind. - Dr Wayne
Dyer
The stone that the builder refused will always be the head cornerstone. - Bob Marley
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to
do. - Thomas Edison
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is
so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly
people.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sun WILL come up tomorrow - Origin Unknown
The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen
a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. - Galileo
Galilei
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard B. Sheridan
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep
somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. - Samuel Beckett
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man it forms. -
Source Unknown
The things that hurt us teach us. - Author Unknown
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach -
Jewel
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our
lives. - Louise Hay
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by
fiend, by prayer or by wine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -
Origin Unknown
The trick in life isn’t getting what you want, my dear, it’s wanting it after you get it. -
Katharine Hepburn
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and
down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no
good. - Samuel Johnson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is
doing it. - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. -
Muhammed Iqbal
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. - Nolan Bushnell
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -
Eden Phillpotts
The very air in which you live is an inspiration. - William Henry Moody
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way.
Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just
try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. - Ikue Mori
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly
Parton
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma
Gandhi
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them
out and call them by name. - Sylvia Browne
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these
are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. - Confucius
The wise does at once what the fool does at last. - Baltasar Gracian
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough.
But do not do their work for them. Seek any job, ask anyone out; pursue any goal.
Don’t take it personally when they say no - they might not be smart enough to say
yes. - Keith Olbermann
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show
that he knows where he is going. - Napoleon Hill
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-
Robert Frost
The world is not thy friend or the world’s law - Shakespeare
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is
interrupted by the person who is doing it. - Anon
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. - H. W.
Arnold
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a
vis language, because language is never innocent. - Juan Goytisolo
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still - Franklin D.
Roosevelt
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning
from failure. - Colin Powell
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those
who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. - Mary Kay Ash
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the
credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to to
enjoy it. - Logan Pearsall Smith
There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, Well, here I
am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are. - Frederick L. Collins
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is
as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you
dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will
become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one. - Ralph Martson
There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others nconciously when we

walk uprightly. - Anne Sophie Swetchine
There is always room at the top. - Daniel Webster
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. - Euripides
There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now.
The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to
bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now. -
Anonymous
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who
gets the credit, - Robert Woodruff
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take
a nap. - Carrie Fisher
There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas

MacArthur
There is no self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. -
George Shinn
There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. - Origin Unknown
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. -
Richard Rorty
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is
a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn
that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. - Siddhartha Gautama
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way. -
Christopher Morleys.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. - Marcus
Cicero
There will be sleeping enough in the Grave. - Benjamin Franklin
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a
champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. - Pat
Riley
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a
scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express
the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort
and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know
when to leave off. - Giorgio Vasari
They can because they think they can. - Virgil
Things do not change we change. - Henry David Thoreau
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -
Abraham Lincoln
Things today may not be great, but they are not bad, and that's good. - Inspirational
Poster
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -
Art Linkletter
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. - Thomas Browne
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True. - William Shakespeare
This is the beginning of a new day - Origin Unknown
This is the first day.... of the rest of your life - Unknown
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This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your
income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God. - Walt
Whitman
This moment contains all moments. - C.S. Lewis
This too, shall pass. - An Advisor to King Solomon
This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We
personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail. - Connie
Sellecca
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the
inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. - Carter G.
Woodson
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Swedish Proverb
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select
group of Fortune's darlings. - Wislawa Szymborska
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from
now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring
back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. - Anais Nin
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but
also believe. - Anatole
To avoid criticism... Do nothing... Say nothing... Be nothing! - Elbert Hubbard
To be a good loser is to learn how to win. - Carl Sandburg
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own

existence. - Aristotle
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. -

Robert Louis Stevenson
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To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. - William
James
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever
you do for your own sake is not religion. - Swami Vivekananda
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. - Source
Unknown
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Donald Laird
To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else. - Laurie Beth
Jones
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything
seems hopeless. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more
fun! - Katherine Graham
To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today. - Jim
Rohn
To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In

fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called
failure. - Henry Ford
To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keefe
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,
something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -
Origin Unknown
To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in

everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. - Helen Keller
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth
to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? - Elizabeth II
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. - Unknown
Today is the first day of the rest of your life - Origin Unknown
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia
Tough times never last but tough people do. - Robert Schuller
Tradition means handing on all that is valuable - McWaid
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should
be and he will become as he can and should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True courage is when you know you can come out on top but face it anyway. - Tim
Menchen
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future,
not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we
have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of
mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot,
whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. - Seneca
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -
Albert Einstein
Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ... I took the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Stephen
Szasz
Ultimately, the source of happiness and joyfulness is within ourselves. - Dalai Lama
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the
choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise. - Stephen R.
Covey
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Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you
have. - Doris Mortman
Use the past as a guide for the future, not an excuse for not dealing with it. - Patricia
Fripp
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except
those that sang best - Henry Van Dyke
Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write
is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the
next book. - Anita Desai
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napolean Bonaparte
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese

Proverb
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be
honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to
do. - Vince Poscente
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be
absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come
your way. - Les Brown
Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday. - Euripides
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become
actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become
character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. - Bill Hicks
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all
that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -
Charles Kingsley
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a
private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in the past.
We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings
having a human experience - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new
inspiration. - James Larkin
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we
have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our
own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. - Swami
Vivekananda
We are what we do… Not what we did. Now if we continue doing what we used to
do, we can’t be upset that we are still what we were, Simply because we’re still
doing what we did! - Damon Lofton
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -
Aristotle
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness,
despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a
piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. - Mother Teresa
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter
entirely - C.S. Lewis
We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of
which is ignorance. - Joseph Smith
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. - Source Unknown
We cannot learn everything from ‘general principles’ there may be exceptions. -

Talmud
We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing. - William
James
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop
playing. - George Bernard Shaw
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter. -
Donald Norman
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We fought your wars with all our hearts - You've sent us back in body parts - You took
our wills with the truth you stole - We offer prayers for your long lost soul. - Serj Tankian
We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him --
but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to
prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any
honey. - Albert E. Cliffe
We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough
motivation I don't think you should be playing this game. - Tina Thompson
We have not yet begun to fight. - John Paul Jones
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by

what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no
end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. -
Jawaharlal Nehru
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Sir Winston
Churchill
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. - Orison Swett
Marden
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. - C.S. Lewis
We must be the change we wish to see - Mahatma Gandhi
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to
arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they
can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead
all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for
the inspiration. - Burt Rutan
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and
diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and
inspiration. - Josefa Iloilo
We see things not as they are, but as we are. - H. M. Tomlinson
81
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our
previous experiences. - Dennis Kimbro
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. -
Winston Churchill
We talk on principal, but act on motivation. - Walter Savage Landor
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we

don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -
Frederick Keonig
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do
something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch
some inspiration from heights above our own. - Maria Mitchell
We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau
We will either find a way or make one. - Hannibal
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight
in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche
What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for
yourself. - Grete Waitz
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. - Henry David Thoreau
What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and
the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to
what it used to be. - Joe Grant
What is, is. What will be, is what you make it. - Source Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other

than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. - Italo
Calvino
What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
82
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind
up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes. - John
Huston
What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our
tomorrows. - Alexandra Stoddard
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller
What you are is God's gift to you: what you become is your gift to god. - Anthony
Dalla Villa
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. - Ralph Marston
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by
achieving your goals. - Goethe
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether
you're willing to do it, that's another matter. - Peter Drucker
What you see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock
Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us
or close to us. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whatever it takes! - Origin Unknown
Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go
and do. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
Whatever you are be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you can do, or dream you can. Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it, Begin it now. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -
Mahatma Gandhi
83
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild
those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill
When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother
would say about your decision - Robert H. Connelly
When God closes a door, he opens a window. - Origin Unknown
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem
invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always. - Mahatma Gandhi
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that
the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive
knowledge. - Albert Einstein
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared
to what?’ - Sydney Harris
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way.
I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit
back waiting for it. I work every day. - Alberto Moravia
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy
named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. - Van Morrison
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at
how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let
go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back! - Judy Collins
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Charles A. Beard
When life gives you lemons, make Lemonade. - Origin Unknown
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what others are
coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. - Ann Landers
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of
us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? - Naomi Klein
84
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -
Alexander Graham Bell
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us – Helen
Keller
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is
completed inside us; the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight. - Michael Bridge
When the going gets tough the tough get going - Joseph P. Kennedy
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace -
Unknown.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. - Buddhist Proverb
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, when the road you're trudging seems
all up hill, when the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but
you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't
you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, as every one of us sometimes learns,
and many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't
give up though the pace seems slow--You may succeed with another blow, Success
is failure turned inside out--The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can
tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when
you're hardest hit -- It's when things seem worst that you must not quit. - Unknown
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and
enthusiasm, miracles can happen. - Arland Gilbert
When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise,

we raise. - Jim Bakker
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. -
C.S. Lewis
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One
represents danger, the other opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -- to
breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aureliu
When you can’t change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails. - H. Jackson
Brown
85
When you chose not to decide you have already made a choice - Unknown
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into
the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There
will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. - Barbara Winter
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to
enjoy each step along the way. - Wayne Dyer
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -
that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you
cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and
time the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D.
Roosevelt
When you have answered one big problem, wait for the one that follows. - Spanish
Saying
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne
Dyer
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing
into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past
cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. -
Paulo Coehlo
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when
you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Indian Proverb
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. - Desmond Tutu
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver.
Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you
draw your strength from. - Elvis Stojko
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! - and get busy
and find out how to do it - Theodore Roosevelt
86
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. -
Anonymous
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the
landlady once a month. - John Michael Hayes
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. -
Thomas Sr.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. - Machiavelli
Where there is a will, there is a way. - Origin Unknown
Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and
property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil. - Gordon B.
Hinckley
Where there's life, there's hope. - Terence
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
Wherever you are - be all there. - Jim Elliot
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes,
everything. Just living is an inspiration. - Gavin Rossdale
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. - Henry Ford
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. -
Ronald Reagan
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation.
Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. - Amy
Tan
Whoever does not try, does not learn. - Jewish Saying
Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose. - Max Schmelling
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Mark Twain
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life - Mason Cooley
Why worry about tomorrow, when today is all we have? - Source Unknown
87
Winners never quit and quitters never win! - Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing. - Vince Lombardi
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. - David Starr Jordan
Wise persons learn by others’ mistakes, fools by their own. - Henry George Bohn
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be
cheerful. Strive to be happy. - Max Ehrmann
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and
poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. -
Richard Bach
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. - Johannes

Brahms
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us
which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but
it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the
desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual
destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with
them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to
God. - Mother Teresa
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance
like no one is watching - Satchel Paige
Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about what ever
worries you - Oprah Winfrey
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double
your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at
all. You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and
make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find
success. - Thomas J Watson
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts
uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of
his audience. - David Henry Thoreau
88
Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe
too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration
may come. It's a little too easy to say that. - Karl Lagerfeld
Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that - Princess of Wales Diana
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called

Present. - Origin Unknown
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. - Lyndon B.
Johnson
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You
may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach
You are today where your thoughts have brought - James Allen
You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past. - Jim
Rohn
You are what you think you are. - Bob Richards
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body
at home. - Alexander Pope
You become what you think about. - Earl Nightingale
You can do anything you put your mind to. - Unknown
You can do what you want to do. - David Thomas
You can find the true joy of giving reflected in the eyes of the recipient - Robert H.
Connelly
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get
what they want. - Zig Ziglar
You can have anything you want? If you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other
people to get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
You can if you think you can. - Marcus Cicero
89
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale
Carnegie
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. -
C.S. Lewis
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. - Ted Turner
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the
shore. - Origin Unknown
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham

Lincoln
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Golda Meir
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -
Galileo Galilei
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. - Origin Unknown
You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. - Andrew
Carnegie
You can't talk your way out of what you've behaved yourself into. - Stephen R.
Covey
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
You create your own destiny - Anon
You Create Your Reality. - Origin Unknown
You don’t drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there. - Unknown
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live. -
Joan Baez
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future. - Roger Smith
90
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop
to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself
that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran
You go through so many things as a child, then you grow up and discover that none
of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind. - Joan
Walton Callaso
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. - John Lennon
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--
pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you
do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the
'good.' - Stephen R. Covey
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan
You have to have darkness...for the dawn to come. - Harrison Ford
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with
one record. - Beck
You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Unknown
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and
then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. - Adam Pascal
You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.
- Source Unknown
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
You more often recognize your inadequacies rather than your strengths. - James E.
Faust
You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You must firmly go after the desires of your heart, without any hesitation or negative
regard for what MAY happen, because only God knows what WILL happen. - Bryan
La Sane
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
91
You must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity. - Jim
Rohn
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. - Henry David
Thoreau
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your
values. - Bill Ayers
You only get out what you put in. - Origin Unknown
You see things and you say, why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why
not? - George Bernard Shaw
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to
create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful,
to make this life a wonderful adventure. - Charlie Chaplin
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make
yourself be. - Lou Holtz
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant
aspiration. - James Allen
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry
Drummond
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles
Buxton
You wonder from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace that is already
around your neck! - Jalal-Uddin Rumi
You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love who
you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage
anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. - Oprah Winfrey
You'll see it, when you believe it. - Dr Wayne Dyer
You'll succeed best when you put the restless, anxious side of affairs out of mind, and
allow the restful side to live in your thoughts. - Margaret Stowe
Your attitude determines your altitude. - Zig Ziglar
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Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Kahil
Gibran
Your talent is God's gift to you. - Leo Buscaglia
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by
dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of
other’s opinion drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you
truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the
end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that
the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. -
Gilbert K. Chesterton
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who
you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage
anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. - Oprah Winfrey
You've got to get up every morning with determination, if you're going to go to bed
with satisfaction - George Lorimer
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A dream is a wish your heart makes. - The Supremes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius

A life lived in fear is a life half lived. - Proverb

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. - Raymond Hitchcock

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A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open. - Frank Zappa

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. - George S. Patton

Above all to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

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Actions speak louder than words. - Proverb

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells

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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. - Demosthenes

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Always desire to learn something useful. - Sophocles

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an

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Anything Is Possible. - Origin Unknown

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. - The Bible

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. - Christopher

At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - Johann

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Attitude is everything. - Origin Unknown

Be all you can be. - US Army

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. - Saint Teresa of Avila

Be here now. - Ram Dass

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato

Be the best that you can be. - Origin Unknown

Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne

Be yourself, who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James

Begin with the end in mind. - Doug Flynn

Behold this day for it is yours to make. - Black Elk

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Kettering

Believe in yourself. - Origin Unknown

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

Believing requires action. - James E. Faust

Better late than never - Proverb

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.) - Latin

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Chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Change comes from within. - Origin Unknown

Change your thoughts, change your life. - James Allen

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw

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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. - David Farragut

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. - Helen Keller

Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice. It is not something to be