Inspirational Quotes
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
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.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Live life to the fullest.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Never, never, never give up.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
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.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.