Inspirational Quotes
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
You become what you think about.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
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.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Hard work pays off.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Whatever it takes !
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.