Inspirational Quotes
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Honesty is the best image.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Believe in yourself.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
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.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
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.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
My friends are my estate.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
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.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I light my candle from their torches.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
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.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Fortune favors the brave.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.