Inspirational Quotes
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Never Quit.
Attitude determines altitude.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Without a general an army is lost.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
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.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Faith can move mountains.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
You create your reality.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
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.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
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.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
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."
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.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Whatever you are be a good one.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
I light my candle from their torches.