Inspirational Quotes
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
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.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
After your jump, the net appears.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Let's roll.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
No involvement, no commitment.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Love conquers all.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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 world belongs to the energetic.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.