Inspirational Quotes
It's always too soon to quit !
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
One man with courage is a majority.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
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.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
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.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Attitude is everything.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
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.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.