Inspirational Quotes
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
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.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
You become what you think about.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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.
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.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Experience is the best teacher.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Every dog has his day.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
They alone live, who live for others.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.