Inspirational Quotes - Page 61

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.