Inspirational Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Whatever you are be a good one.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Live with passion !
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
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.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.