Inspirational Quotes
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.
There is time for everything.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Life is what you make it.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Honesty is the best image.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Believe in yourself.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The best way out is always through.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
It is always your next move.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
May you live all the days of your life.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.