Inspirational Quotes
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Know thyself.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
They alone live, who live for others.
Begin with the end in mind.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Live life to the fullest.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
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.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Above all to thine own self be true.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Follow your dreams.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
You become what you think about.
The time is always right to do what is right.