Inspirational Quotes
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Seize the day.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
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.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
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.
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.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Love conquers all.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
You only get out what you put in.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Only the educated are free.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.