Inspirational Quotes
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
None are homely who smile.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
My life is my message.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Don't water your weeds.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Honesty is the best image.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
You're as old as you behave.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
There's no abiding success without commitment.