Inspirational Quotes
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Love sees roses without thorns.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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 ? ''
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
One man with courage is a majority.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
If you would create something, you must be something.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Hope springs eternal.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
You must motivate yourself every day.
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
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Count your blessings.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
It's never too late.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
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.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
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.
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.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Live your life and forget your age.