Inspirational Quotes
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.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Kind words conquer.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Attitude determines altitude.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Talkers are no good doers.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Only the educated are free.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.