Inspirational Quotes
Well done is better than well said.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Grow deep - not just tall.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
All work is empty save when there is love.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
God doesn't make junk.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
He who has hope has everything.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
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.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.