Inspirational Quotes
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
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.
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.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
None are homely who smile.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Remove failure as an option.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
May you live all the days of your life.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
He who hesitates is lost !
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Ability is sexless.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.