Inspirational Quotes
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.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Live your life and forget your age.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Know thyself.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Fortune favors the brave.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Practice makes perfect.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Think and grow rich.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
I think therefore I am
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.