Inspirational Quotes
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Hunker down.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Love conquers all.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
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.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Remove failure as an option.
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.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Ideas... they have the power
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.