Inspirational Quotes
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Don't fear, just live right.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Let thy words be few.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Never Quit.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Carpe diem.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Happiness is a choice.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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 ?
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
The way we see the problem is the problem.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
My life is my message.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
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.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.