Inspirational Quotes
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Seize the day.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Every dog has his day.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
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 !
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
He who has hope has everything.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Don't water your weeds.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
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.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Well done is better than well said.
For with god all things are possible.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.