Inspirational Quotes
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Roll with the punches.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
What ever you are be a good one.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Live your life and forget your age.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The best things in life are not things.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
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.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.