Inspirational Quotes
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Never say die.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
One man with courage is a majority.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Great men are not always wise.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
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.