Inspirational Quotes
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Never say more than is necessary.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Never stop dreaming.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Anything is possible.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
It's never too late.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We must be the change we wish to see.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
You can do what you want to do.
Truth fears no questions.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Be Here Now.
You become what you think about.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Hard work pays off.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
There are no gains without pains.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
They are able because they think they are able.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.