Inspirational Quotes
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Hard work pays off.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
What ever you are be a good one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It's never too late.
Well done is better than well said.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.