Inspirational Quotes
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
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.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Embrace your inner voice.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Do it now !