Inspirational Quotes
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
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.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
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.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Those who laugh - last!!
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Whatever it takes !
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
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.
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.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
We come to beginnings only at the end.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
You're as old as you behave.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
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.