Inspirational Quotes
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
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.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Don't ever give up.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
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.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
I am the captain of my soul.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
You become what you think about.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.