Inspirational Quotes
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
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.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Those who laugh - last!!
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Don't quit.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Whatever it takes !
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Great men are not always wise.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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 !
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.