Inspirational Quotes
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.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
You create your reality.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Live with passion.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Nothing succeeds like success.
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.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
One man with courage is a majority.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
You're as old as you behave.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.