Inspirational Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
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.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Happiness is a choice.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
There are no gains without pains.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Count your blessings.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The road to success is always under construction.
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.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become 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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Reach for the stars.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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.
Live life with passion.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?