Inspirational Quotes
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
He who stops being better stops being good.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
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.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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 have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
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.
Nothing succeeds like success.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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 labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
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.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
God doesn't make junk.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.