Inspirational Quotes
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Attitude determines altitude.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Fortune favors the brave.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Never say die.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Things do not change we change.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
They are able because they think they are able.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
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.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.