Inspirational Quotes
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Happiness is a state of activity.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
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.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
To ask the hard question is simple.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Let's roll.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
He who hesitates is lost !
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind