Inspirational Quotes
None are homely who smile.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
In love beggar and king are equal.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Ideas without action are worthless.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Let thy words be few.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Keep the Faith.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Ideas... they have the power
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
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.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Faith can move mountains.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Do it now !
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.