Inspirational Quotes
You create your reality.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
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.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
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.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Only the educated are free.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Hope springs eternal.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Well done is better than well said.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
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.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.