Inspirational Quotes
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.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Success leaves clues.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Life is what you make it.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Children are all foreigners.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Love sees roses without thorns.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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.
This too, shall pass.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Never say more than is necessary.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
He who hesitates is lost.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
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.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.