Inspirational Quotes
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
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.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
To ask the hard question is simple.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Love conquers all.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.