Inspirational Quotes
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Life is what you make it.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
If there is a will, there is a way.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
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.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You create your reality.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Many hands make light work.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Adventure is worthwhile.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
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.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.