Inspirational Quotes
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Practice makes perfect.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I am the captain of my soul.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
It ain't over till it's over.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Honesty is the best image.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
God doesn't make junk.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?