Inspirational Quotes
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Remove failure as an option.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
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.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Embrace your inner voice.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
No involvement, no commitment.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Experience is the best teacher.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.