Inspirational Quotes
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Whatever it takes !
A bold onset is half the battle.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Actions speak louder than words.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
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.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Live with passion.
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 will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Do it now !
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Embrace your inner voice.
Live your dreams.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Attitude determines altitude.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Know thyself.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It's never too late.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.