Inspirational Quotes
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Children are all foreigners.
Hard work pays off.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
They alone live, who live for others.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Success leaves clues.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Be all you can be.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
He who hesitates is lost !
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.