Inspirational Quotes
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
One man with courage is a majority.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Be Here Now.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The best things in life are not things.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
They are able because they think they are able.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.