Inspirational Quotes
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.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Live your dreams.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
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.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Ideas... they have the power
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.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
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.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
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.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
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.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
It's always too soon to quit !
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
The best things in life are not things.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.