Inspirational Quotes
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Our intentions create our reality.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
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.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Obstacles are great incentives.
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.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.