Inspirational Quotes
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
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.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The road to success is always under construction.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
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.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.