Inspirational Quotes
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Many hands make light work.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The buck stops here.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
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.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Do it now !
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.