Inspirational Quotes
The beginning is the half of every action.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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.
Many hands make light work.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Old love does not rust.
There is no education like adversity.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Never stop dreaming.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.