Inspirational Quotes
I think therefore I am
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Know thyself.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
In imagination, there's no limitation.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Roll with the punches.
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.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Attitude is everything.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
God doesn't make junk.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
After your jump, the net appears.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Nothing succeeds like success.