Inspirational Quotes
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Roll with the punches.
Talkers are no good doers.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
My life is my message.
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.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Ability is sexless.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
This is the beginning of a new day.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.