Inspirational Quotes
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Believe in yourself.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Seize the day.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Live life to the fullest.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The buck stops here.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Above all to thine own self be true.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.