Inspirational Quotes
Don't sweat the small stuff.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Don't fear, just live right.
Ideas without action are worthless.
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.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
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.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
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Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.