Inspirational Quotes
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
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.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
This is the beginning of a new day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Roll with the punches.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I light my candle from their torches.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.