Inspirational Quotes
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
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.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
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.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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 can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
No pain, No gain.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
He who has hope has everything.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Don't quit.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Roll with the punches.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Never complain about what you permit.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Success is the child of audacity.