Inspirational Quotes
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Keep the Faith.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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.
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.
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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".
There are no gains without pains.
Above all to thine own self be true.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
You're as old as you behave.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Keep away from small 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.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.