Inspirational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Don't water your weeds.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
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.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
My friends are my estate.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
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.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Experience is the best teacher.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.