Inspirational Quotes
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Ideas... they have the power
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
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.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
All work is empty save when there is love.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
We have not yet begun to fight.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
You become what you think about.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or 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.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Never stop dreaming.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.