Inspirational Quotes
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
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.
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 give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
We will either find a way or make one.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Don't think it, ink it.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
No involvement, no commitment.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Anything is possible.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Great men are not always wise.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The show must go on.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
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.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.