Inspirational Quotes
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
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.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Our intentions create our reality.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Love understands all languages.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Never say die.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
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. Discover.
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.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
The book you don't read cant help.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The buck stops here.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
He who stops being better stops being good.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
They can because they think they can.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.