Inspirational Quotes
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Actions speak louder than words.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Live life with passion.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Change comes from within.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Strike while the iron is hot.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
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.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
You are what you think you are.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.