Inspirational Quotes
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
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's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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.
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.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
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.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
No involvement, no commitment.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Attitude is everything.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Faith can move mountains.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
You become what you think about.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
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.