Inspirational Quotes
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Most ball games are lost, not won.
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.
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.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Keep the Faith.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Many hands make light work.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Adventure is worthwhile.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
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.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Do or do not, there is no try.
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.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.