Inspirational Quotes
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Be who you are in every situation.
Reach for the stars.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
We will either find a way or make one.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Without a general an army is lost.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Believe in yourself.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.