Inspirational Quotes
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The road to success is always under construction.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
Don't ever give up.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The show must go on.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Great men are not always wise.
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.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ideas without action are worthless.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
There are no gains without pains.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.