Inspirational Quotes
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
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.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
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.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
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.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Carpe diem.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Great men are not always wise.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.