Inspirational Quotes
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You always succeed in producing a result.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
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.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Don't think it, ink it.
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Above all to thine own self be true.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.