Inspirational Quotes
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The best things in life are not things.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Life is what you make it.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.'
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Hope springs eternal.
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.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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 ?
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.