Inspirational Quotes
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
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.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Be all you can be.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
When we place blame, we give away our power.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Children are all foreigners.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
You only get out what you put in.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The road to success is always under construction.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.