Inspirational Quotes
Love understands all languages.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
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.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Our intentions create our reality.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Do what you love and the money will follow
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Carpe diem.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
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.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.