Inspirational Quotes
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Those who laugh - last!!
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.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Children are all foreigners.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
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.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Live your life and forget your age.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.