Inspirational Quotes
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
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.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The world belongs to the energetic.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
There are no gains without pains.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Hunker down.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
There is no education like adversity.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
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.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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.