Inspirational Quotes
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Reach for the stars.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
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.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Success is predictable.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
There's no abiding success without commitment.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
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 Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.