Inspirational Quotes
Don't go through life, grow through life.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
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.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Don't quit.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Never Quit.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Life is what you make it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
A bold onset is half the battle.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Live life with passion.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Hard work pays off.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Be who you are in every situation.