Inspirational Quotes
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
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.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Attitude is everything.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Truth fears no questions.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Hunker down.
Better late than never.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Be all you can be.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.