Inspirational Quotes
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Obstacles are great incentives.
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.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Don't water your weeds.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.
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.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
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.
Those who laugh - last!!
Old love does not rust.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Hope springs eternal.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Live with passion.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
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 ?
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Kind words conquer.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.