Inspirational Quotes
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Nothing succeeds like success.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Every dog has his day.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
To ask the hard question is simple.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Seize the day.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Roll with the punches.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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.
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.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
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.'