Inspirational Quotes
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
They can because they think they can.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's never too late.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Live your dreams.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Do what you love and the money will follow
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Our intentions create our reality.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Well done is better than well said.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Every dog has his day.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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".
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.