Inspirational Quotes
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Never, never, never give up.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
They can because they think they can.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
He who stops being better stops being good.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Hope springs eternal.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Children are all foreigners.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Love sees roses without thorns.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
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.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Truth fears no questions.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.