Inspirational Quotes
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Live your dreams.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The beginning is the half of every action.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Well done is better than well said.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
High expectations are the key to everything.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Believe in yourself.
You become what you think about.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Never say die.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
My friends are my estate.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Be all you can be.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.