Inspirational Quotes
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
Attitude is everything.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
You're as old as you behave.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
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 of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Things do not change we change.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Change comes from within.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
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.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
In love beggar and king are equal.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.