Inspirational Quotes
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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 can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
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.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
My life is my message.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.