Inspirational Quotes
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
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.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Success is predictable.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
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.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Hope springs eternal.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
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.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
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.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.