Inspirational Quotes
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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 ?
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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 ?
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
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 ?
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Talkers are no good doers.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?