Inspirational Quotes
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
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.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ideas without action are worthless.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
We must be the change we wish to see.
You can do what you want to do.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
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.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.