Inspirational Quotes
There are no gains without pains.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
He who hesitates is lost.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
We must be the change we wish to see.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Attitude is everything.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.