Inspirational Quotes
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
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.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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 !
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Faith can move mountains.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Begin with the end in mind.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Where there's life, there's hope.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
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.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
No pain, No gain.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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.'
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.