Inspirational Quotes
Procrastination is the thief of time.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
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.
Don't ever give up.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
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.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Old love does not rust.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Success leaves clues.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
This too, shall pass.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Seize the day.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.