Inspirational Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
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.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
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.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Change comes from within.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Every dog has his day.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Talkers are no good doers.
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.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Be who you are in every situation.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.