Inspirational Quotes
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
We will either find a way or make one.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Our intentions create our reality.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Do it now !
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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
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.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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 future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
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.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
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.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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.