Inspirational Quotes
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You become what you think about.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Without a general an army is lost.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The sun will come up tomorrow
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
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.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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 ?
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You can do what you want to do.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.