Inspirational Quotes
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
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.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
You're as old as you behave.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
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.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
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 have not yet begun to fight.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Better late than never.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
You become what you think about.
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.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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
Children are all foreigners.
Let thy words be few.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.