A Collection of My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this;
Decide what you want: - Ben Stein

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities
as you do at conclusions. – Benjamin Franklin

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. – Dan Stanford

He who considers his work beneath him
will be above doing it well. – Alexander Chase

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. – Kay Lyons

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser

Don’t just make a living, design a life. – Jim Rohn

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or
polishes you up depends on what you are made of.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow
is to do good work today. – Elbert Hubbard

When you handle yourself, use your head;
when you handle others, use your heart – Donna Reed

People who fight fire with fire
usually end up with ashes. – Abigail Van Buren

Shallow men believe in luck. . .
Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Emerson

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.

That old law about “an eye for an eye”
leaves everyone blind. – Martin Luther King

Every tomorrow has two handles.  You can take hold of the
handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm.  Upon your
choice so will be the day.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education
is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do,
when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. – Thomas Huxley

When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters - -
one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history.
Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk. – J.C. Penny

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

Learn to laugh at your troubles
and you’ll never run out of things to laugh at. – Lyn Karol

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news
when you change your attitude! – Robert Schuller

People can succeed at almost anything
for which they have unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles Schwab

Try not to become a man of success but rather try
to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

Rule #1; Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Rule #2: It’s all small stuff. – Dr. Michael Mantell

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior
without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg . . . not by smashing it. – Arnold Glasow

Impossibilities vanish when a man and his god confront a mountain. – Robert Schuller

Life is an echo.
What you send out – you get back. What you give – you get.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years of  trying
to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

Character may be manifested in the great moments,
but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. – Italian Proverb

A great deal of good can be done in the world if
one is not too careful who gets the credit. – A Jesuit Motto

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t,
you are right. - Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Elliot

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

I don’t know the secret to success
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. – Bill Cosby

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

Promises may get friends but ‘tis performance that keeps them. – Benjamin Franklin

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

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore

The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness;
you have to catch up with it yourself. – Gill Robb Wilson

Laugher is a tranquilizer
with no side effects. – Arnold Glasow

Small deeds done are better than
great deeds planed. – Peter Marshall

It’s nothing against you to fall down flat,
but to lie there – that’s disgrace. – Edmund Vance Cooke

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

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure. . .
it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. – Robert Schuller

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Reginald B. Mansell

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. – Dr. Melba Colgrove

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll
get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right.
Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell
on the fine, good things in others.  Think about all you
can praise God for and be glad about it. – Phillippians 4:8 (TLB)

You see thing and you say “Why?” I dream things that never
were and say “Why not?”- George Bernard Shaw

“One of these days” is none of these days. – English Proverb

He that riseth late must trot all day. – Benjamin Franklin

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan

In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless
you know where the goalposts are. – Arnold Glasow

Do not follow where the path may lead - - go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man
grows it under his feet. – James Openheim

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Alva Edison

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

Until you make peace with who you are,
you’ll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of
good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages
that occur every day. – Benjamin Franklin

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

He who receives a good turn should never forget it;
he who does one should never remember it. – Charron

People may doubt what you say, but
they will believe what you do.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them – Walt Disney

None will improve your lot, if you yourself do not. – Bertolt Brecht

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

Give others a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.

As long as you’re green, you’re growing; as soon as
you’re ripe you start to rot. – Ray Kroc

It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool
than to open it and resolve all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we
fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorpe

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington

Nothing is opened by mistake more than the mouth.

Great minds have purpose; others have wishes. – Washington Irving

In the race to be better or best, don’t forget to enjoy the journey!

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want
and killing ourselves to get it. – Don Herlod

You may give out, but never give up. – Mary Crowley

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend
on what we have, but on what we are. – Henry Van Dyke

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. – William James

Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness
depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on
the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm Von Humbolt

A man is know by the company his mind keeps. – Thomas Balley Aldrich

A man is defined by his actions.

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing,
like what you are doing and believe in what you are doing. – Will Rogers

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts. – Mamie McCullough

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength – Phaedrus

Waste your money and you’re only out of money,
but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. – Michael Leboeuf

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

It’s not whether you get knocked down;
it’s whether you get up again. – Vince Lombardi

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you
get to the other end in a awful hurry. – John Jensen

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference.
The little difference is attitude.  The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
– W. Clement Stone.

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my
soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington

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