Inspirational Quotes
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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 ?
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Remove failure as an option.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
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.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Embrace your inner voice.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Success is predictable.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
You can do what you want to do.
Procrastination is the thief of time.