Inspirational Quotes
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
He who has hope has everything.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Do what you love and the money will follow
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
This too, shall pass.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Never say more than is necessary.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
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.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Kind words conquer.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
My life is my message.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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.'
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You can do what you want to do.
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.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.