Inspirational Quotes
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
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 fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Live with passion.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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 ?
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Attitude is everything.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
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.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
What ever you are be a good one.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
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.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
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.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
You become what you think about.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.