Inspirational Quotes
Obstacles are great incentives.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
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.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Kind words conquer.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Love conquers all.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
For with god all things are possible.
It ain't over till it's over.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Change comes from within.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Let thy words be few.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Nothing succeeds like success.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
We must be the change we wish to see.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
If it is to be it is up to me.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.