Inspirational Quotes
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
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''.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Change your thoughts, change your life.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
You must motivate yourself every day.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
There is no education like adversity.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.