Inspirational Quotes
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Life is what you make it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Great men are not always wise.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Don't ever give up.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The beginning is the half of every action.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
There is time for everything.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.