Inspirational Quotes
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
High expectations are the key to everything.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
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.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
It's always too soon to quit !
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Talkers are no good doers.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.