Inspirational Quotes
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
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.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I am the captain of my soul.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
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.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Without a general an army is lost.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
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
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Don't fear, just live right.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.