Inspirational Quotes
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
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 ?'
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
I light my candle from their torches.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Success is predictable.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
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
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
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.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Success is never wondering what if.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Believe in yourself.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
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.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
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.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
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Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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 only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.