Inspirational Quotes
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
There is time for everything.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
What ever you are be a good one.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Without a general an army is lost.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
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.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
High expectations are the key to everything.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Don't fear, just live right.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Change comes from within.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Those who laugh - last!!
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Believe in yourself.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
He who hesitates is lost !
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
There are no gains without pains.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.