Inspirational Quotes
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Keep the Faith.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Love sees roses without thorns.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Don't water your weeds.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
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 ?
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The sun will come up tomorrow
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.