Inspirational Quotes
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
He who hesitates is lost !
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Success is the child of audacity.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Well done is better than well said.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Don't water your weeds.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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'.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.