Inspirational Quotes
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Every human heart is human.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
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.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
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.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Count your blessings.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Embrace your inner voice.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Love understands all languages.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.