Inspirational Quotes
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Count your blessings.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
May you live all the days of your life.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Keep away from small 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.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
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.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Anything is possible.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
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.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.