Inspirational Quotes
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Great men are not always wise.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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.
Grow deep - not just tall.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
I think therefore I am
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
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.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.