Inspirational Quotes
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
For with god all things are possible.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The book you don't read cant help.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
You can do what you want to do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
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.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
No man is wise enough by himself.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
My friends are my estate.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Be all you can be.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.