Inspirational Quotes
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The road to success is always under construction.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
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.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The world belongs to the energetic.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Laughter is the best medicine.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Remove failure as an option.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Well done is better than well said.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.