Inspirational Quotes
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Honesty is the best image.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Never Quit.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Kind words conquer.
Don't quit.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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.'
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Above all to thine own self be true.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
You can do what you want to do.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Don't think it, ink it.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.