Inspirational Quotes
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Success is never wondering what if.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Never say more than is necessary.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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 look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Great men are not always wise.
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.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
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.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Nothing succeeds like success.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Action is the antidote to despair.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.