Inspirational Quotes
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Well done is better than well said.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
They alone live, who live for others.
They can because they think they can.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Don't water your weeds.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Seize the day.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Hard work pays off.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
You create your reality.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.