Inspirational Quotes
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Hope springs eternal.
Success leaves clues.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The buck stops here.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Attitude is everything.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
My life is my message.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
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.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Be who you are in every situation.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Follow your dreams.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
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.