Inspirational Quotes
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
My friends are my estate.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Procrastination is the thief of time.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The ready back gets all the loads.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Count your blessings.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Never say more than is necessary.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.