Inspirational Quotes
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Only the educated are free.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Well done is better than well said.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Whatever you are be a good one.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
He who has hope has everything.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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.
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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.