Inspirational Quotes
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
This is the beginning of a new day.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Fortune favors the brave.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The book you don't read cant help.
Hope springs eternal.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Believe in yourself.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.