Inspirational Quotes
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
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.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Never, never, never give up.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The best things in life are free.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
They can because they think they can.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
The buck stops here.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.