Inspirational Quotes
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
It ain't over till it's over.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The beginning is the half of every action.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Anything is possible.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
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.
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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Great men are not always wise.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
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 !
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
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.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Live with passion !