Inspirational Quotes
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Live life with passion.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Remove failure as an option.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
My life is my message.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Find the good -- and praise it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Follow your dreams.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
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.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
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.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.