Inspirational Quotes
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
My life is my message.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
You create your reality.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Do it now !
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Live life with passion.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
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.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I light my candle from their torches.
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.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
If you would create something, you must be something.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
If there is a will, there is a way.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The best things in life are free.
Life is what you make it.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.