Inspirational Quotes
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The road to success is always under construction.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Seize the day.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
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.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Well done is better than well said.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
They can because they think they can.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
There is no education like adversity.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.