Inspirational Quotes
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Be the best that you can be.
Live with passion.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
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.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The best things in life are not things.
The beginning is the half of every action.
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
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
You become what you think about.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
No one became poor by giving alms.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Actions speak louder than words.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.