Inspirational Quotes
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
God doesn't make junk.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
To go fast, row slowly.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
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
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
They are able because they think they are able.
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.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There's no abiding success without commitment.