Inspirational Quotes
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Find the good -- and praise it.
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 ?
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
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.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Live life with passion.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
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 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.
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.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
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 search for someone to blame is always successful.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
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.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The book you don't read cant help.