Inspirational Quotes
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Be who you are in every situation.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Anything is possible.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
High expectations are the key to everything.
If there is a will, there is a way.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
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 ?
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
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.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.