Inspirational Quotes
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Only the educated are free.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Never complain about what you permit.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
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.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
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.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Love understands all languages.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
He who hesitates is lost !
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.