Inspirational Quotes
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Practice makes perfect.
Live with passion.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
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.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Never complain about what you permit.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Happiness is a state of activity.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.