Inspirational Quotes
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.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
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.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Don't quit.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
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.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Be Here Now.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Live your life and forget your age.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.