Inspirational Quotes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Well done is better than well said.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Anything is possible.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Live life to the fullest.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
I light my candle from their torches.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Happiness is a choice.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
He who hesitates is lost.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
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.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.