Inspirational Quotes
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Ideas... they have the power
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Remove failure as an option.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Keep away from 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.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You become what you think about.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Success is predictable.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
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.
The buck stops here.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.