Inspirational Quotes
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
In love beggar and king are equal.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You're as old as you behave.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Follow your dreams.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I think therefore I am
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Faith can move mountains.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Many hands make light work.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
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.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
May you live all the days of your life.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
This too, shall pass.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
We will either find a way or make one.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Believe in yourself.