Inspirational thoughts

  • “Whenever God wants to send you a gift He wraps it up in a problem.” Norman Vincent Peale
  • “If one looks closely enough, one will discover that each failure carries the seeds of success.” Robin Sharma
  • “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
  • “The Warrior of light carefully studies the position he intends to conquer. However difficult the objective, there is always a way of overcoming obstacles. He seeks out alternative paths, he sharpens his sword, and he tries to fill his heart with the necessary determination to face the challenge. But as he advances, the warrior realizes that there are difficulties he had not reckoned with. If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; it requires a touch of madness for the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For – in both love and war – it is impossible to foresee everything.” Paulo Coelho
  • “How much better to know that we have dared to live our dreams than to live our lives in a lethargy of regret.” Gilbert E. Kaplan
  • “The past, present, and future are all properties of consciousness. The past is recollection, memory; the future is anticipation; the present is awareness. Therefore time is the movement of thought. Both past and future are born in the imagination; only the present, which is awareness, is real and eternal. It is. It is the potentiality for space-time, matter, and energy. It is an eternal field of possibilities experiencing itself as abstract forces, whether they be light, heat, electricity, magnetism, or gravity. These forces are neither in the past nor in the future. They just are.” Deepak Chopra
  • “Begin with yourself, but do not finish with yourself; be the beginning but not an end unto yourself.” Martin Buber
  • “There is only one process of healing and that is faith. There is only one healing power, namely your subconscious mind.” Joseph Murphy
  • “Scientific prayer is the harmonious interaction of the conscious and subconscious levels of mind scientifically directed for a specific purpose.” Joseph Murphy
  • “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” (Mark 11:24)
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese proverb from “The Way of Lao-Tzu”
  • “Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” David Lloyd George
  • “Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.” Brian Tracy

  • “It is asked, how can the laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer, that an earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes, when eagerly seized and faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour in the day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. William Ellery Channing
  • “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho
  • “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.” Napoleon Hill
  • “The most unfortunate people are those whose lives no longer have any place for dreams.” John Kennedy
  • “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • “A goal is nothing more than a dream with a deadline.” Joe L. Griffith
  • “Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” William Moulton Marsden
  • To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.“ Anatole France
  • A happy life begins with the belief that you are worthy of happiness.” John Marks Templeton
  • I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.” Margaret Thatcher
  • We often try to convince ourselves that we are unable to reach our goal; however, this is nothing but self-justification. It is not ability that we lack, but will.” F. de La Rochefoucauld
  • There are many paths and personality traits that can lead to success, but firm, absolute persistence is the one attribute of success that may be adopted and used by anyone.” Zig Ziglar
  • “The secret of success is to discover what you like and are most capable of doing while you are still young, to do this, to learn and then to structure your life so you can make a living at it.” Jack Canfield
  • “When a person is brimming with gratitude, when they are thinking and talking about it, when they feel grateful, the frequency of their energy is transformed into one of the highest and most potent. Gratitude attracts energy akin to its own, so, when we feel grateful, we experience an unstoppable influx of a similar energy and find more and more things for which we could give thanks.” Rhonda Byrne