Inspirational Quotes
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Our intentions create our reality.
Slow but steady wins the race.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
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.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Find the good -- and praise it.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Success is the child of audacity.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
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.
Live with passion.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Security is a kind of death.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Do it now !
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The best things in life are free.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Do or do not, there is no try.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Never stop dreaming.
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.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'