Inspirational Quotes
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Never say die.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Think and grow rich.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The best way out is always through.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Ability is sexless.
We will either find a way or make one.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Don't water your weeds.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.