Inspirational Quotes
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Never say more than is necessary.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Talkers are no good doers.
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.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
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.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Attitude is everything.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
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.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.