Inspirational Quotes
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't think it, ink it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Be Here Now.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The best things in life are not things.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Success is the child of audacity.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
One man with courage is a majority.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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 ? ''
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Life is what you make it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.