Inspirational Quotes
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hope springs eternal.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
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.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
The world belongs to the energetic.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Ideas without action are worthless.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Live with passion !
Success is a journey not a destination.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Happiness is a choice.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Attitude determines altitude.
Grow deep - not just tall.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.