Inspirational Quotes
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Begin with the end in mind.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Faith can move mountains.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The best things in life are not things.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
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.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Live with passion !
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Things do not change we change.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
What ever you are be a good one.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Great men are not always wise.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.