Inspirational Quotes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
You become what you think about.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Attitude is everything.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.