Inspirational Quotes
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Change comes from within.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Without a general an army is lost.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Do it now !
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Attitude is everything.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The best things in life are free.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
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.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Hope springs eternal.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Experience is the best teacher.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.