Inspirational Quotes
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.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
We will either find a way or make one.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
They alone live, who live for others.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Well done is better than well said.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
He who has hope has everything.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If there is a will, there is a way.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
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.
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.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.