Inspirational Quotes
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
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
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
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.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
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".
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Make the second effort your second nature.
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.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.