Inspirational Quotes
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The best way out is always through.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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 the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Don't water your weeds.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Your attitude determines your altitude.