Inspirational Quotes
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There are no gains without pains.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Know thyself.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
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.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Live with passion.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Love understands all languages.