Inspirational Quotes
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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 "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
They alone live, who live for others.
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.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
The past does not equal the future.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The buck stops here.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.