Inspirational Quotes
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
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.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
High expectations are the key to everything.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Love conquers all.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
We will either find a way or make one.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Better late than never.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Never Quit.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
You're as old as you behave.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Things do not change we change.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.