Inspirational Quotes
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The best things in life are not things.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Every human heart is human.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
You're as old as you behave.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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.
Be all you can be.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
They can because they think they can.
Count your blessings.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Live your dreams.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.