Inspirational Quotes
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Be Here Now.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
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.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
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 ?
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
To go fast, row slowly.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
They alone live, who live for others.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
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.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
This too, shall pass.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.