Inspirational Quotes
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
After your jump, the net appears.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
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.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Never say die.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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.
Attitude is everything.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Great men are not always wise.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Kind words conquer.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Talkers are no good doers.
You become what you think about.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Action is the antidote to despair.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
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.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.