Inspirational Quotes
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
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.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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 can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It ain't over till it's over.
Live life to the fullest.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
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.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
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.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Adventure is worthwhile.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion