Inspirational Quotes
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
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.
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.
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.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Old love does not rust.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Anything is possible.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Hunker down.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Above all to thine own self be true.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
He who hesitates is lost !
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.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Fortune favors the brave.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Don't ever give up.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Never say die.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.