Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
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
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
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.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Success is the child of audacity.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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 must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Let thy words be few.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Never spend your money before you have it.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Many hands make light work.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Do or do not, there is no try.
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.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
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.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
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.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.