Inspirational Quotes
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The buck stops here.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Whatever it takes !
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Make the second effort your second nature.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
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.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Carpe diem.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
We will either find a way or make one.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Never, never, never give up.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.