Inspirational Quotes
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Begin with the end in mind.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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 ?
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Success is a journey not a destination.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Whatever you are be a good one.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Never stop dreaming.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Think and grow rich.
No involvement, no commitment.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
It's always too soon to quit !
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.