Inspirational Quotes
Don't ever give up.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
They can because they think they can.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Every dog has his day.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Don't water your weeds.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Find the good -- and praise it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Hunker down.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Embrace your inner voice.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.