Inspirational Quotes
The world belongs to the energetic.
Follow your dreams.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
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.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Success leaves clues.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The best things in life are not things.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
None are homely who smile.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
This is the beginning of a new day.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.