Inspirational Quotes
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Many hands make light work.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The beginning is the half of every action.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
May you live all the days of your life.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
They alone live, who live for others.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
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.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.