Inspirational Quotes
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.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Success is never wondering what if.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
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.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I think therefore I am
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
It ain't over till it's over.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
What ever you are be a good one.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
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.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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.