Inspiration For You

Inspirational Story - What Life is About

2009-03-30T13:21:00.000+07:00

A Long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and cover as much land area as he likes, then the Emperor would give him the area of land he has covered.

Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as possible.

Came to a point when he had covered a substantial area and he was exhausted and was dying. Then he asked himself, "Why did I pushed myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself."

The above story is similar with the journey of our Life. We push very hard everyday to make more money, to gain power and recognition. We neglect our health, time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding beauty and the hobbies we love to do. One day when we look back, we will realize that we don't really need that much, but then we cannot turn back time for what we have missed.

Life is not about making money, acquiring power or recognition. Life is definitely not about work! Work is only necessary to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.

Life is a balance of Work and Play, Family and Personal time. You have to decide how you want to balance your Life. Define your priorities, realize what you are able to compromise but always let some of your decisions be based on your instincts.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of Life, the whole aim of human existence. So, take it easy, do what you want to do and appreciate nature. Life is fragile, Life is short. Do not take Life for granted. Live a balance lifestyle and enjoy Life!

Author: Unknown; Source: www.inspirationstories.com

Inspirational Quotes - Destination

2009-03-30T13:20:00.001+07:00

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.” - Barbara Hall

“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” - H. Stanley Judd

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” - Earl Nightingale

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” - Christopher Columbus

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” - Greg Anderson

“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.” - Diane Sawyer

“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.” - Jose Rizal

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean

”I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.” - Curtis Carlson

“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” - Henry Miller

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” - Arthur Ashe

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” - Fitzhugh Dodson

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.” - Charles de Lint

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” - Carl Rogers

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The good life is a process, not a stage of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers

“You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.” – W. Clement Stone

“The road of life twists and turns, and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” – Don William Jr

Inspirational Poem - One Life

2009-03-30T13:18:00.001+07:00

One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference.

Author: Unknown; Source: www.inspirationpeak.com

Goals Quotes

2008-12-28T01:05:00.000+07:00

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” - Denis Watley

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” - Fitzhugh Dodson

“I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.” - Kurt Thomas

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” - Diana Scharf Hunt

“You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.” - Charles C. Noble

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.” - Paul Meyer

“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” - Benjamin Mays

“Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.” - Author Unknown

“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” - Les Brown

“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.” - Earl Nightingale
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” - Brian Tracy

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.” - Rita Mae Brown

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Author Unknown

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” - Eva Young

“I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.” - Zig Ziglar

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” - Marie de Vichy

“Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.” - Author Unknown

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” - Japanese Proverb

“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown

“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.” - Elbert Hubbard

“A goal properly set is halfway reached” - Abraham Lincoln

“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.” - Harvey Mackay

“Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.” - Zig Ziglar

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction” - JFK
“Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be

2008-12-28T01:02:00.001+07:00

There is inside you
all of the potential
to be whatever you want to be,
all of the energy
to do whatever you want to do.

Imagine yourself as you would like to be,
doing what you want to do,
and each day, take one step
towards your dream.

And though at times it may seem too
difficult to continue,
hold on to your dream.

One morning you will awake to find
that you are the person you dreamed of,
doing what you wanted to do,
simply because you had the courage
to believe in your potential
and to hold on to your dream.

Author: Donna Levine ; Source: www.cybernation.com

Forgiveness

2008-10-01T01:33:00.001+07:00

To forgive
Is not to forget.

To forgive
Is really to remember

That nobody is perfect

That each of us stumbles
When we want so much to stay upright

That each of us says things
We wish we had never said

That we can all forget that love
Is more important than being right.

To forgive
Is really to remember

That we are so much more
Than our mistakes

That we are often more kind and caring

That accepting another's flaws
Can help us accept our own.

To forgive
Is to remember

That the odds are pretty good that
We might soon need to be forgiven ourselves.

That life sometimes gives us more
Than we can handle gracefully.

To forgive
Is to remember

That we have room in our hearts to
Begin again

And again,
And again.

Author: Unknown, Source: www.bellaonline.com

Inspirational Quotes - Forgiveness

2008-10-01T01:32:00.000+07:00

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” – Chaterine Ponder

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H McGill

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas D. Szasz

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” – Lewis B. Smedes

“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive” – Alan Paton

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” – Gerald Jampolsky

“Without forgiveness, there's no future” – Desmond Tutu

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” – Cherie Carter – Scott

“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.” – Lawana Blackwell

“It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.” – Real Live Preacher

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." - William Arthur Ward

"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." - Isaac Friedmann

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." - Harriet Nelson

Inspirational Quotes - Persistence

2008-09-06T03:01:00.000+07:00

"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently." - William A. Ward

"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself." - Author Unknown

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." - Alex Karras

"The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do – professionally and personally – and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures." - Warren Bennis

"Our efforts to do a better job of living our values will undoubtedly come with flaws. But if we meet those flaws and occasional failures with both persistence and patience, we can unlock the fortunes that exist within our organizations." - Eric Harvey & Alexander Lucia

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter F. Drucker

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing in the world can take place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"Failure is the path of least persistence." - Anonymous

"Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, and determination. If you are going to be a success in life, it is up to you... it is your responsibility." - Will Horton

"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?" - Napoleon Hill

Don't Quit

2008-09-06T02:26:00.000+07:00

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Author: Unknown; Source: Unknown