Inspirational Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
It's always too soon to quit !
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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.
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.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
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.
The best things in life are not things.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
He who hesitates is lost !
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Our intentions create our reality.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Things do not change we change.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
They can because they think they can.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who 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.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.