Inspirational Quotes
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.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Ability is sexless.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Attitude determines altitude.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Seize the day.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
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.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
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 ?
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
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.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Many hands make light work.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.