Inspirational Quotes
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
I am the captain of my soul.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Let thy words be few.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.
We must be the change we wish to see.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Hard work pays off.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
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.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.