Inspirational Quotes
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Don't think it, ink it.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Security is a kind of death.
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.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Don't fear, just live right.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
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.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Many hands make light work.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.