Inspirational Quotes
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Do it now !
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Hard work pays off.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You become what you think about.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
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.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Success is a journey not a destination.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
It's never too late.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Money without brains is always dangerous.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.