Inspirational Quotes
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Reach for the stars.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Only the educated are free.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Don't fear, just live right.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The ready back gets all the loads.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.