Inspirational Quotes
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. Discover.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Every human heart is human.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Happiness is a state of activity.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Never say die.
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.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.