Inspirational Quotes
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
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.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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 ?
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
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.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Reach for the stars.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
No pain, No gain.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Only the educated are free.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.