Inspirational Quotes
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Hard work pays off.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
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.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The best way out is always through.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Keep the Faith.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Strike while the iron is hot.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
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.'
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Change your thoughts, change your life.
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Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Every dog has his day.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Laughter is the best medicine.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Believe in yourself.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.