Inspirational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
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.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
It's never too late.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
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
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.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The buck stops here.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.