Inspirational Quotes
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
None are homely who smile.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Every dog has his day.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The buck stops here.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Seize the day.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
What ever you are be a good one.
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.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Never Quit.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.