Inspirational Quotes
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
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.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
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.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Remove failure as an option.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
There is no substitute for hard work.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Success leaves clues.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
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.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You become what you think about.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
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 one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It's always too soon to quit !
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.