Inspirational Quotes
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The book you don't read cant help.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success leaves clues.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Remove failure as an option.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
After your jump, the net appears.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Anything is possible.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.