Inspirational Quotes
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Truth fears no questions.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Seize the day.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Hope springs eternal.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Security is a kind of death.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.