Inspirational Quotes
What ever you are be a good one.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Hard work pays off.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Embrace your inner voice.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
None are homely who smile.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
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.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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.
Know thyself.
The time to make friends is before you need them.