Inspirational Quotes
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Success is the child of audacity.
There is time for everything.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
There are no gains without pains.
Let's roll.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Be Here Now.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
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.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.