Inspirational Quotes
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
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.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The book you don't read cant help.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Live with passion.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
He who hesitates is lost !
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.