Inspirational Quotes
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.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
My life is my message.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Honesty is the best image.
Practice makes perfect.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
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.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The show must go on.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
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.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
May you live all the days of your life.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Success is never wondering what if.
The best things in life are not things.
Whatever you are be a good one.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.