Inspirational Quotes
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Never say die.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Be Here Now.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Keep the Faith.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Many hands make light work.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Think and grow rich.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
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.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.