Inspirational Quotes
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Hard work pays off.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Every human heart is human.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Live your dreams.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Never Quit.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
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.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
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 ?
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.