Inspirational Quotes
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.
Be all you can be.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
There is no education like adversity.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Remove failure as an option.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Where there is love there is no darkness.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
They alone live, who live for others.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
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.
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 !
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You can do what you want to do.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Action is the antidote to despair.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
After your jump, the net appears.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Many hands make light work.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The price of greatness is responsibility.