Inspirational Quotes
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The best things in life are not things.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Every dog has his day.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
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.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Children are all foreigners.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Attitude determines altitude.
They can because they think they can.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Never Quit.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.