Inspirational Quotes
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
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.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Whatever you are be a good one.
There is time for everything.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
I am the captain of my soul.
Follow your dreams.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
Great men are not always wise.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Live your dreams.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
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.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.