Inspirational Quotes
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The buck stops here.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
It is always your next move.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You're as old as you behave.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
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
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.