Inspirational Quotes
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
You become what you think about.
For with god all things are possible.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Follow your dreams.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
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.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Let's roll.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.