Inspirational Quotes
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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.
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.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Every cloud has a silver lining.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
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.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
To go fast, row slowly.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Every human heart is human.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Kind words conquer.