Inspirational Quotes
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It's never too late.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We will either find a way or make one.
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.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Let thy words be few.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
No one became poor by giving alms.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Actions speak louder than words.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.