Inspirational Quotes
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
There is no education like adversity.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
You become what you think about.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
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.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Well done is better than well said.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Live with passion !
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
He who has hope has everything.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Be the best that you can be.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
After your jump, the net appears.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.