Inspirational Quotes
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
After your jump, the net appears.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
There are no gains without pains.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
They can because they think they can.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The buck stops here.
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.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Never stop dreaming.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
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 great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
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.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.