Inspirational Quotes
Above all to thine own self be true.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Never Quit.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The buck stops here.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Never complain about what you permit.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The best way out is always through.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
All work is empty save when there is love.
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.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Remove failure as an option.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.