Inspirational Quotes
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Fortune favors the brave.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Live life to the fullest.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Be the best that you can be.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
I light my candle from their torches.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
One man with courage is a majority.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
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.
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.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
There is time for everything.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The road to success is always under construction.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
To go fast, row slowly.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.