Inspirational Quotes
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
What ever you are be a good one.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Talkers are no good doers.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
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.
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 ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
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.