Inspirational Quotes
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You only get out what you put in.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
It is always your next move.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
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.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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. '
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Never say more than is necessary.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Where there is a will, there is a way.