Inspiring Quotes

Be inspired!

Life is rarely, if not never, a smooth-sailing one. Depression and sadness are emotions that we will inevitably experience perhaps many times in our lives. But with a positive mindset and attitude, and a strong belief and mentality, we can achieve our goals and dreams. :)

There's 88 inspiring quotes which I would like to share, so take your time and be inspired! You can, of course, come back again another time to continue read on.
Cheers!

1. "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

2. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

3. "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to
   make it worth the effort."
   
   
4. "I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
   
   
5. "Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
   
   
6. "Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing"
   
   
7. "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
   
   
8. "Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
   
   
9. "We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions."
   
   
10. "The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
11. 
    "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
12. 
    "Our destiny changes with our thought;
    we shall become what we wish to become,
    do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought
    corresponds with our desire."
    
    
13. "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
    
    
14. "Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
    
    
15. "It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
    
    
16. "Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own
    ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
    
    
17. "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
    
18. "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
    
    
19. "Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best."
    
20. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
    
    
21. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
    
    
22. "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."
    
    
23. "It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."
    
24. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
    
    
25. "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
    
    
26. "Every exit is an entry somewhere."
    
    
27. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
    
    
28. "I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."
    
    
29. "Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."
    
    
30. "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
    
    
31. "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
    
    
32. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
    
    
33. "Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by."
    
    
34. "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
    
    
35. "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
    
    
36. "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"
    
    
37. "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
    
    
38. "There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
    
    
39. "Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
    
    
40. "Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
    
    
41. "We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."
    
    
42. "Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
    
    
43. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
    
    
44. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
    
    
45. "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
    
    
46. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
    
    
47. "Above all, challenge yourself. You may well suprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish."
    
    
48. "Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake."
    
    
49. "One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."
50. 
    
    "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
    
    
51. "Unless you believe, you will not understand."
    
    
52. "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."
    
    
53. "Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim ."
    
    
54. "Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."
    
    
55. "Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."
    
    
56. "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
    
    
57. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
    
    
58. "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
    
    
59. "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
    
    
60. "There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
    
    
61. "Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."
    
    
62. "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good to check up once in a while to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
    
    
63. "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."
    
    
64. "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
    
    
65. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
    
    
66. "Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
    
    
67. "With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose." - Unknown "This above all: to thine own self be true..."
    
    
68. "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
    
    
69. "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
    
    
70. "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
    
    
71. "Others have done it before me. I can, too."
    
    
72. "The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing."
    
    
73. "Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you."
    
    
74. "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
    
    
75. "There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me."
    
    
76. "Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light."
    
    
77. "You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
    
    
78. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
    
    
79. "I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labour of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person."
    
    
80. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
    
    
81. "It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."
    
    
82. "Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail."
    
    
83. "Falling into the deepest valley is nothing to fear. It just means that you are in the perfect position to climb the World's highest mountain."
    
    
84. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
    
    
85. "Remember, happiness doesn't depend on what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."
    
    
86. "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
    
    
87. "That which we persist on doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."
    
    
88. "What worries you masters you."
    

人生

好啦，我终于为我的部落格更新了！这应该是我第一次以华文来叙述我对人生的心情吧。已经好久没有写文章了，不晓得脑袋有没有生锈，写出让人明白的东西。

最近的生活过得很充实，过得与一般人不一样。也许正是因为时间过得实在充实，时间也似乎飞得很快，转眼间，已快要到两个星期了。每天忙忙碌碌地过日子，其实也并不是件辛苦的事。至少这段时间使我对这世界大开眼界，学习到了在职场上所需要注意的事项，样样都马虎不得。从对工作的责任感，至人与人之间的相处关系，及如何做到有效的沟通，甚至到自己对人生的态度，皆让我以崭新的视角去窥探。工作或许会使人感到灰心、疲惫，但却是这样的心情才让我觉得真正活着。所以，我也还蛮享受工作所带来的疲惫，只要凡事问心无愧，我已很满足了。其实，辛苦不见得是辛苦；辛苦或许才是幸福。一些人想要辛苦，却无法达成。另一些人可以辛苦，恐惧和怯懦却征服了他们。这又是何等悲哀啊。

公司在一次每月举行一次的小组开会时，给我们播放了录影带。最让我印象深刻及倍感感动的是关于一位老妇人天生就没有双臂的人生经历。由于天生的缺陷，凡事得以双脚来代劳。一般人根本无法想象没有双臂的日子将会如何去度过，但这位老妇人没有被打倒。她的双脚可做的事可多了，不管是洗脸、拾螃蟹、煎蛋、包饺子，甚至还可以写出漂亮整齐的字，都难不到她！现场观看着录影带的人，没有一个不张大嘴巴，发出哗然的声音。老妇人如此坚强的求生意志，让我打从心底佩服她。看到了她的经历，我所面对的困难根本不值一谈。

十八年的日子快要结束了。十八年来，我不知到在别人的眼中，我是个怎样的人。小气？吝啬？无聊？或许吧。其实我是个怎样的人，连我自己也不是很清楚。有时，知道未必比不知道来得好。知道又如何？逃避也不见得是件坏事。当然，我不是在鼓励逃避现实。我们还是要有一定的智慧去决定哪些事情才是值得我们不需百分之百的了解。听起来，好像有点儿矛盾，是吧？嗯。。。我不知道。我只知道我的心似乎总有一个方针，它有能力指引我下一步该往哪里走。或许，是靠感觉吧。十八年来，也没留下什么啦，除了那些在慢慢淡化的记忆。