Inspirational Quotes
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
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.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
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.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Success leaves clues.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hope springs eternal.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.