Inspirational Quotes
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Faith can move mountains.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
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.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Happiness is a choice.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Things do not change we change.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
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.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
A bold onset is half the battle.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Anything is possible.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.