Inspirational Quotes
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
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.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Actions speak louder than words.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Never say die.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.