Inspirational Quotes
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Old love does not rust.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You become what you think about.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Talkers are no good doers.
Every dog has his day.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It's always too soon to quit !
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.