Inspirational Quotes
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
It's never too late.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Roll with the punches.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The best things in life are not things.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
We have not yet begun to fight.
After your jump, the net appears.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Happiness is a choice.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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.
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.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.