Inspirational Quotes
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Those who laugh - last!!
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
I am the captain of my soul.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Hard work pays off.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
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.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Believe in yourself.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
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.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.