Inspirational Quotes
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.
The book you don't read cant help.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Hope springs eternal.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Love understands all languages.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Be all you can be.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
I am the captain of my soul.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Attitude determines altitude.
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.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.