Inspirational Quotes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Many hands make light work.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Life is what you make it.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Live with passion.
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.
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.
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.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.