Inspirational Quotes
Ability is sexless.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Great men are not always wise.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
You're as old as you behave.
Embrace your inner voice.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
None are homely who smile.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
He who hesitates is lost.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Never say more than is necessary.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
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.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
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.
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.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.