Inspirational Quotes
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
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 the educated are free.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The road to success is always under construction.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Success is the child of audacity.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Keep the Faith.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Every human heart is human.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Ability is sexless.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
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.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The buck stops here.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Don't quit.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.