Inspirational Quotes
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
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.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Success is predictable.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Be who you are in every situation.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
He who has hope has everything.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Embrace your inner voice.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.