Inspirational Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Success is never wondering what if.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Little strokes fell great oaks.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
I think therefore I am
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
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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.
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 power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Change comes from within.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
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.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Never say more than is necessary.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Every dog has his day.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
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.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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.