Inspirational Quotes
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
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.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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 ?
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
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 ?'
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Experience is the best teacher.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Kindness is always fashionable.
My life is my message.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.