Insperational Quotes

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

People often say motivation doesn't last. But neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!

Try a little harder to be a little better.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

We become what we think about.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.