Inspirational Quotes
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Roll with the punches.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
You're as old as you behave.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Hunker down.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Success is never wondering what if.
The best things in life are not things.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.