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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

Doing Your Best Quotes

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James

# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner

# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin

# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)

# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks

# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden

# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas

# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands

# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner

# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt

# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser

# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey

# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)

# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden

# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)

# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie

# Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!–Anne Frank

# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl