Inspirational Quotes
You only get out what you put in.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
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.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
For with god all things are possible.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Follow your dreams.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.