Inspirational Quotes
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Love understands all languages.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Love conquers all.
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.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Adventure is worthwhile.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Our intentions create our reality.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.