Inspirational Quotes
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
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.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
It ain't over till it's over.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
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.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
God doesn't make junk.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Know thyself.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.