Inspirational Quotes
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Don't think it, ink it.
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.
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.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
It is always your next move.
Be all you can be.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Remove failure as an option.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
After your jump, the net appears.
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Don't fear, just live right.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.