Inspirational Quotes
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
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.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Never, never, never give up.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
You're as old as you behave.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Do it now !
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
My life is my message.
Experience is the best teacher.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.