Inspirational Quotes
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 more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Ideas without action are worthless.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Well done is better than well said.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
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 ?
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Never say die.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
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.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Do it now !
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.