Inspirational Quotes
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Never complain about what you permit.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Never spend your money before you have it.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
There is time for everything.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
They can because they think they can.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.