Inspirational Quotes
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
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''.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
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 imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Attitude determines altitude.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You always succeed in producing a result.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Every dog has his day.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.