Inspirational Quotes
Success is a journey not a destination.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Reach for the stars.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Keep the Faith.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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.
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.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Many hands make light work.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
To ask the hard question is simple.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.