Inspirational Quotes
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
No pain, No gain.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Things do not change we change.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
There is no education like adversity.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Live your dreams.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Experience is the best teacher.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
It's never too late.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Ability is sexless.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
My friends are my estate.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.