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Inspirational Quotes

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Inspirational Quotes

Life

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;

the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharal Nehru

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Elbert Hubbard

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

Success

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Evan Esar

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else.

Yogi Berra

As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall.

Anonymous

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you wil learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Joe Namath

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Adversity

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Mao Tse-Tung

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Bernie Siegel, MD

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.

L.P. Jacks

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Elie Wiesel

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

Gordon W. Allport, from the Introduction to Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

While there's life, there's hope!

Roman Proverb