Inspirational Quotes
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.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Life is what you make it.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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.
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.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Every artist was first an amateur.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Security is a kind of death.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.