Inspirational Quotes
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
We will either find a way or make one.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Hard work pays off.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
After your jump, the net appears.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
If you would create something, you must be something.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Hope springs eternal.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Keep the Faith.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
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.