Inspirational Quotes
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Every dog has his day.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
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.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Never Quit.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Talkers are no good doers.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
Success is predictable.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.