Inspirational Quotes
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The show must go on.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Be the best that you can be.
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.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
We will either find a way or make one.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Success leaves clues.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
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.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
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.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Love understands all languages.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Only the educated are free.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Carpe diem.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.