Inspirational Quotes
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Hard work pays off.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
A bold onset is half the battle.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Be all you can be.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.