Inspirational Quotes
They can because they think they can.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
We will either find a way or make one.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
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.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
I think therefore I am
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Many hands make light work.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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.
Anything is possible.
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Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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%.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
You only get out what you put in.
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.