Inspirational Quotes
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
You can do what you want to do.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
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.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Security is a kind of death.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You're as old as you behave.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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.
Be Here Now.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
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.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
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.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
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.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
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.