Inspirational Quotes
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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 !
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
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Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Live life to the fullest.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
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.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Embrace your inner voice.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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 so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Security is a kind of death.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Never spend your money before you have it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Success leaves clues.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.