Inspirational Quotes
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Those who laugh - last!!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
They are able because they think they are able.
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.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Fortune favors the brave.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
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 ? ''
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Hunker down.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
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.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Where there is a will, there is a way.