Inspirational Quotes
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
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.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Action is the antidote to despair.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
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.
They alone live, who live for others.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
You are today where your thoughts have brought
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
One man with courage is a majority.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
I think therefore I am
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Remove failure as an option.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.