Inspirational Quotes
Do what you love and the money will follow
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Success leaves clues.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Hope springs eternal.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You only get out what you put in.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Do it now !
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Don't fear, just live right.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
None are homely who smile.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.