Inspirational Quotes
This is the beginning of a new day.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
None are homely who smile.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
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.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
For with god all things are possible.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.