Inspirational Quotes
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Happiness is a state of mind.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
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.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
It ain't over till it's over.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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.