Inspirational Quotes
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
There are no gains without pains.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The show must go on.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Happiness is a state of activity.
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.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
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.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Be all you can be.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.