Inspirational Quotes
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Kindness is always fashionable.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I am the captain of my soul.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Never spend your money before you have it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
This too, shall pass.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
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.
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.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
You can do what you want to do.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
No one became poor by giving alms.
Happiness is a choice.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Actions speak louder than words.
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
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Follow your dreams.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.