Inspirational Quotes
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
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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'.
It is always your next move.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
It's always too soon to quit !
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Roll with the punches.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Embrace your inner voice.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Actions speak louder than words.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
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.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.