Inspirational Quotes
I light my candle from their torches.
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.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
You become what you think about.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Ability is sexless.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Children are all foreigners.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Better late than never.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.