Inspirational Quotes
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.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ability is sexless.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
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.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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.
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.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
No pain, No gain.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Only the educated are free.
He who hesitates is lost.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.