Inspirational Quotes
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Practice makes perfect.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We have not yet begun to fight.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
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.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Our intentions create our reality.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Remove failure as an option.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Above all to thine own self be true.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
He who has hope has everything.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.