Inspirational Quotes
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Seize the day.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Believe in yourself.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
It's always too soon to quit !
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Live life with passion.
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.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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.
The beginning is the half of every action.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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.
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.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.