Inspirational Quotes
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Success leaves clues.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Actions speak louder than words.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Love understands all languages.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Begin with the end in mind.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.