Inspirational Quotes
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
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.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Experience is the best teacher.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
You become what you think about.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
There is time for everything.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Never, never, never give up.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
May you live all the days of your life.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Victory belongs to the most persevering.