Inspirational Quotes
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Better late than never.
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 !
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Hunker down.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
There is time for everything.
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.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
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.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
They alone live, who live for others.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Live life with passion.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
You create your reality.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.