Inspirational Quotes
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Believe in yourself.
What ever you are be a good one.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
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.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
They can because they think they can.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Hunker down.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Be Here Now.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
I am the captain of my soul.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Know thyself.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Live life to the fullest.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.