Inspirational Quotes
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Attitude is everything.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Truth fears no questions.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
They can because they think they can.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Be Here Now.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Be all you can be.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
For with god all things are possible.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Keep away from small 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.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I am the captain of my soul.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Well done is better than well said.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.