Inspirational Quotes
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
One man with courage is a majority.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Above all to thine own self be true.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Happiness is a choice.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
This is the beginning of a new day.
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''.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Keep away from small 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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.