Inspirational Quotes
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Success is predictable.
Believe in yourself.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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.
Only the educated are free.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Attitude is everything.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
A bold onset is half the battle.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Love understands all languages.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Don't ever give up.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.