Inspirational Quotes
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Reach for the stars.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
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.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Keep the Faith.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Be the best that you can be.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
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.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Without a general an army is lost.
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.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Don't fear, just live right.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.