Inspirational Quotes
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Let thy words be few.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Fortune favors the brave.
Change comes from within.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Carpe diem.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The book you don't read cant help.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Obstacles are great incentives.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Victory belongs to the most persevering.