Inspirational Quotes
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Don't think it, ink it.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Don't ever give up.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Don't quit.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Never complain about what you permit.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
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.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
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.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
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.
This is the beginning of a new day.