Inspirational Quotes
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
They alone live, who live for others.
For with god all things are possible.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
You only get out what you put in.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Don't ever give up.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
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 ?
Talkers are no good doers.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Well done is better than well said.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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My life is my message.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
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.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
You always succeed in producing a result.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The past does not equal the future.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Better late than never.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
It's never too late.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
He who hesitates is lost !
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ideas... they have the power