Inspirational Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
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.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Live your life and forget your age.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
No involvement, no commitment.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Many hands make light work.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.