Inspirational Quotes
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Follow your dreams.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
You can do what you want to do.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Roll with the punches.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
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.
Without a general an army is lost.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.