Inspirational Quotes
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You're as old as you behave.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
My friends are my estate.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
It's never too late.
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.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
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.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Where there is a will, there is a way.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
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.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
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.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Children are all foreigners.
Without a general an army is lost.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.