Inspirational Quotes
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
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.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Don't ever give up.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Change comes from within.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.