Inspirational Quotes
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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 ?
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Ability is sexless.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
No one became poor by giving alms.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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.
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.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Be Here Now.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
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.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
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.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.