Inspirational Quotes
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Life is what you make it.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
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.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Actions speak louder than words.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Let thy words be few.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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 idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Old love does not rust.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.