Inspirational Quotes
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Never say die.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
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.
Slow but steady wins the race.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Those who laugh - last!!
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.