Inspirational Quotes
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
I light my candle from their torches.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Many hands make light work.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
What ever you are be a good one.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Truth fears no questions.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.