Inspirational Quotes
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Do or do not, there is no try.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
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.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
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.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Be Here Now.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
You can do what you want to do.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.