Inspirational Quotes
May you live all the days of your life.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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!
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Whatever you are be a good one.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
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.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
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.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Follow your dreams.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.