Inspirational Quotes
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
To ask the hard question is simple.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Be the best that you can be.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Kindness is always fashionable.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Attitude is everything.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.