Inspirational Quotes
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
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.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Anything is possible.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
It ain't over till it's over.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Do what you love and the money will follow
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
They can because they think they can.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
It's never too late.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.