Inspirational Quotes
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Action is the antidote to despair.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
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.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
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.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Slow but steady wins the race.
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.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The past does not equal the future.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Keep away from small 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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.