Inspirational Quotes
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Faith can move mountains.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.