Inspirational Quotes
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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 best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
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.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Old love does not rust.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
He who has hope has everything.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !