Inspirational Quotes
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Never Quit.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Happiness is a choice.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
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.
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.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Practice makes perfect.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Change your thoughts, change your life.
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 lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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.
Follow your dreams.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Don't water your weeds.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Obstacles are great incentives.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!