Inspirational Quotes
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Roll with the punches.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
He who has hope has everything.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Be Here Now.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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.
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.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The road to success is always under construction.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
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.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The truth is more important than the facts.