Inspirational Quotes
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
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.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
It's never too late.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
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.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The best things in life are not things.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
You become what you think about.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
"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.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
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.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
The road to success is always under construction.
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.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Truth fears no questions.
Love understands all languages.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Things do not change we change.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
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.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.