Inspirational Quotes
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.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Do it now !
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Be all you can be.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Let thy words be few.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
You become what you think about.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
This too, shall pass.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
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 !
Things do not change we change.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
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.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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.