Inspirational Quotes
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
They alone live, who live for others.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Make the second effort your second nature.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Love conquers all.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Well done is better than well said.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Live with passion !
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
You can do what you want to do.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Every dog has his day.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
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.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Seize the day.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Life is what you make it.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We come to beginnings only at the end.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.