Inspirational Quotes
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Anything is possible.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
It ain't over till it's over.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The world belongs to the energetic.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
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.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.