Inspirational Quotes
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.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
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.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Never complain about what you permit.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Old love does not rust.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
It's always too soon to quit !
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Without a general an army is lost.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
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.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.