Inspirational Quotes
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Never Quit.
Kindness is always fashionable.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Never say more than is necessary.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.