Inspirational Quotes
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Remove failure as an option.
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.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
A leader is a dealer in hope.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
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.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Nothing succeeds like success.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Never Quit.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
You must motivate yourself every day.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Change comes from within.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
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.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Those who laugh - last!!
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.