Inspirational Quotes
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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.
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.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
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.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Live with passion.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
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.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Those who laugh - last!!
Adventure is worthwhile.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
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 more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?