Inspirational Quotes
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
They alone live, who live for others.
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.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Do or do not, there is no try.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The beginning is the half of every action.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Experience is the best teacher.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Keep the Faith.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
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
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.