Inspirational Quotes
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Don't think it, ink it.
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.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The show must go on.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
He who has hope has everything.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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 is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.