Inspirational Quotes
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
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Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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.
Live with passion.
They alone live, who live for others.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Hope springs eternal.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
To ask the hard question is simple.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Every artist was first an amateur.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
One man with courage is a majority.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
In love beggar and king are equal.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.