Inspirational Quotes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Obstacles are great incentives.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
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.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Change comes from within.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
I light my candle from their torches.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.