Inspirational Quotes
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Live your dreams.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Live with passion !
Honesty is the best image.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
They can because they think they can.
Ability is sexless.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.