Inspirational Quotes
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
There is no substitute for hard work.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
You only get out what you put in.
For with god all things are possible.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Don't water your weeds.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The buck stops here.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
What ever you are be a good one.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
My friends are my estate.
The book you don't read cant help.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.