Inspirational Quotes
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You become what you think about.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Honesty is the best image.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Be Here Now.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Live your dreams.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Carpe diem.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
You create your reality.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.