Inspirational Quotes
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Success is the child of audacity.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Nothing succeeds like success.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Never Quit.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The time is always right to do what is right.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
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.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Think and grow rich.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Passion is the genesis of genius.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.