Inspirational Quotes
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
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.
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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Truth fears no questions.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Our intentions create our reality.
Count your blessings.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
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.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
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.
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Success is never wondering what if.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?