Inspirational Quotes
Carpe diem.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
No involvement, no commitment.
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.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Live life to the fullest.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The buck stops here.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.