Inspirational Quotes
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
No man is wise enough by himself.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Happiness is a choice.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Success is the child of audacity.
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.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Anything is possible.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Ability is sexless.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
You must motivate yourself every day.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Old love does not rust.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
We will either find a way or make one.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Reach for the stars.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.