Inspirational Quotes
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
This too, shall pass.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
He who hesitates is lost !
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
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.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Believe in yourself.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
Those who laugh - last!!
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Success is never wondering what if.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Don't think it, ink it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.