Inspirational Quotes
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You are what you think you are.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
This too, shall pass.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Embrace your inner voice.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Live life to the fullest.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
My life is my message.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Count your blessings.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Let thy words be few.
There are no gains without pains.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Never say die.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.