Inspirational Quotes
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Do what you love and the money will follow
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.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Keep away from small 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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Security is a kind of death.