Inspirational Quotes
Ideas... they have the power
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Be all you can be.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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 ?
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Success is a journey not a destination.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You're as old as you behave.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
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.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Hard work pays off.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
Success is the child of audacity.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Ability is sexless.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Great men are not always wise.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.