Inspirational Quotes
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
After your jump, the net appears.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that 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.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
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.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.