Inspirational Quotes
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
You become what you think about.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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
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.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Be all you can be.
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.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Never complain about what you permit.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Grow deep - not just tall.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Success is a journey not a destination.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
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.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Let thy words be few.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.