Inspirational Quotes
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Keep the Faith.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
They can because they think they can.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Never, never, never give up.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The best things in life are not things.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Life is what you make it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Success leaves clues.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Be the best that you can be.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Old love does not rust.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
They are able because they think they are able.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.