Inspirational Quotes
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
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.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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 toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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 cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
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 !
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Remove failure as an option.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
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.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!