Inspirational Quotes
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Success is the child of audacity.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The best things in life are free.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Anything is possible.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Live your dreams.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
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.