Inspirational Quotes
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Strike while the iron is hot.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The best things in life are free.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
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.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Ability is sexless.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The ready back gets all the loads.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
After your jump, the net appears.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
They can because they think they can.