Inspirational Quotes
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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".
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
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.
Be the best that you can be.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved