Inspirational Quotes
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
None are homely who smile.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
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.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Success leaves clues.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Ideas... they have the power
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
God doesn't make junk.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
He who hesitates is lost !
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I think therefore I am
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Experience is the best teacher.
Kind words conquer.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Whatever it takes !
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.