Inspirational Quotes
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Think and grow rich.
There is no education like adversity.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
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.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Never say more than is necessary.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Success is predictable.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
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.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
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.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.