Inspirational Quotes
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
You're as old as you behave.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Believe in yourself.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
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.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
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 ?
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
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.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
It's never too late.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
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.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Never, never, never give up.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
What ever you are be a good one.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.