Inspirational Quotes
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Don't quit.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Seize the day.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
None are homely who smile.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Ideas... they have the power
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.