Inspirational Quotes
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
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.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
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.
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.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
I light my candle from their torches.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
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.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Grow deep - not just tall.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Know thyself.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
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 ?
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
You become what you think about.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
High expectations are the key to everything.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.