Inspirational Quotes
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
They can because they think they can.
You only get out what you put in.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Kind words conquer.
Never Quit.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Attitude is everything.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Do or do not, there is no try.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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.
The book you don't read cant help.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
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.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.