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25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston

2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy

3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg

5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

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

9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle

10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner

11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden

12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau

13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot

14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles

15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis

17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner

18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford

19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson

20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton

22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous

23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington

24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden

25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Motivational Career Change Quotes

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman

The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin

My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox

For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden

A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier

Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller

Hard Work Quotes

Posted on March 18, 2011March 18, 2011 by

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas A Edison

It is like the seed put in the soil — the more one sows, the greater the harvest. – Orison Swett Marden

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard – Anonymous

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make. – Gorden B. Hinkley

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun. – Christina Rossetti

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. – Charles L. Allen

It is better to wear out than to rust out. – George Whitefield

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. – Robert H. Schuller

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume. – Madeleine Albright

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. – Edwin H. Stuart

Nature Quotes

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Khalil Gibran

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. – Sandra Day O’Connor

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. – Robert Green Ingersoll

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! – Emily Dickinson

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

I am two with nature. – Woody Allen

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it. – Debbie Harry

Imagination Quotes

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

– “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

– “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

– “Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” – Joseph Addison

– “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

– “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

– “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals

– “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

– “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel

– “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin

– “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso

– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

– “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

– “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil

– “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum

– “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

– “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan

– “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin

– “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll

– “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey