Inspirational Quotes
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
A bold onset is half the battle.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Obstacles are great incentives.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
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.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
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.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
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.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Live with passion !
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.