Inspirational Quotes
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
This too, shall pass.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
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.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Change comes from within.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
The best things in life are free.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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.
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
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.