Inspirational Quotes
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
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.
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.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Whatever you are be a good one.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
He who hesitates is lost !
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
One man with courage is a majority.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
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
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.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.