Inspirational Quotes
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Do what you love and the money will follow
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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.'
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Kind words conquer.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Live with passion.
It's never too late.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Count your blessings.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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.
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!
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.