Inspirational Quotes
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
There is no substitute for hard work.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Live with passion !
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Strike while the iron is hot.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Those who laugh - last!!
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.