Inspirational Quotes
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 power of imagination makes us infinite.
You become what you think about.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
You're as old as you behave.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Success is predictable.
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.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Don't water your weeds.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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 ?'
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Love understands all languages.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Many hands make light work.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Embrace your inner voice.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.