Inspirational Quotes
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
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.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
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.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
You only get out what you put in.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
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.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The buck stops here.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Children are all foreigners.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Happiness is a state of activity.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Don't think it, ink it.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Never stop dreaming.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.