Inspirational Quotes
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Live life to the fullest.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You become what you think about.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
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
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
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.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Change comes from within.
Children are all foreigners.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Think and grow rich.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
One man with courage is a majority.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.