Inspirational Quotes
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
My friends are my estate.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The ready back gets all the loads.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Live your life and forget your age.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Security is a kind of death.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Success is never wondering what if.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Live life to the fullest.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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 !
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Don't fear, just live right.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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.
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.
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.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Kind words conquer.