Inspirational Quotes
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
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.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Be Here Now.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Hope springs eternal.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
What ever you are be a good one.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.