Inspirational Quotes
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You must motivate yourself every day.
All work is empty save when there is love.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Faith can move mountains.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Never stop dreaming.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Reach for the stars.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
They can because they think they can.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Grow deep - not just tall.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.