Inspirational Quotes
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
We will either find a way or make one.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
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.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
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.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
You only get out what you put in.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Live with passion !
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Success is never wondering what if.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Actions speak louder than words.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It's always too soon to quit !
You create your reality.