Inspirational Quotes
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Never say more than is necessary.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
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.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The past does not equal the future.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Better late than never.
Hope springs eternal.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
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.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
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.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You can do anything you put your mind to.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.