Inspirational Quotes
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
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
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Don't water your weeds.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Be Here Now.
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The time is always right to do what is right.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
This too, shall pass.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.