Inspirational Quotes
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
The past does not equal the future.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Think and grow rich.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Faith can move mountains.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Experience is the best teacher.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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.