Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you would create something, you must be something.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
I light my candle from their torches.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The best things in life are free.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Your attitude determines your altitude.