Inspirational Quotes
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Never stop dreaming.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Success is never wondering what if.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Practice makes perfect.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Anything is possible.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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.'
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Talkers are no good doers.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
It is always your next move.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
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.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.