Inspirational Quotes
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Never spend your money before you have it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
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.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Slow but steady wins the race.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's always too soon to quit !
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Children are all foreigners.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Carpe diem.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
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.
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.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Never, never, never give up.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
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.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.