Inspirational Quotes
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
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.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Let thy words be few.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Many hands make light work.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
God doesn't make junk.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Success is a journey not a destination.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
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.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
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.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Success is the child of audacity.
Keep away from 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.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Nothing succeeds like success.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.