Inspirational Quotes
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
There is time for everything.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
You are what you think you are.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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 ? ''
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Live with passion.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Be the best that you can be.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Laughter is the best medicine.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You can do what you want to do.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.