Inspirational Quotes
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Fortune favors the brave.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
They can because they think they can.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
We have not yet begun to fight.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
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.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
This too, shall pass.
Live with passion.
Those who laugh - last!!
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
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.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Live with passion !
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.