Inspirational Quotes
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Adventure is worthwhile.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The best things in life are free.
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.
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.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Roll with the punches.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Happiness is a state of mind.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Attitude is everything.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Old love does not rust.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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.
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.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Love conquers all.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.