Inspirational Quotes
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Never complain about what you permit.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
No one became poor by giving alms.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Hunker down.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Happiness is a choice.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
It is always your next move.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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.
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.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion