Inspirational Quotes
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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.
No one became poor by giving alms.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
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.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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.
Faith can move mountains.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
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.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The past does not equal the future.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The road to success is always under construction.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
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.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Our intentions create our reality.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.