Inspirational Quotes
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The buck stops here.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
You can do what you want to do.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Truth fears no questions.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
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.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Old love does not rust.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Without a general an army is lost.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.