Inspirational Quotes
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
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.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
My friends are my estate.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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
I think therefore I am
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Success is a journey not a destination.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Hard work pays off.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Follow your dreams.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
None are homely who smile.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You are what you think you are.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
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.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Attitude is everything.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
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.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Be Here Now.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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.
Remove failure as an option.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.