Inspirational Quotes
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
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.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is what you make it.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
One man with courage is a majority.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
It's always too soon to quit !
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.
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 ? ''
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Never say more than is necessary.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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 must motivate yourself every day.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
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.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.