Inspirational Quotes
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
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.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Live your life and forget your age.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Talkers are no good doers.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
My life is my message.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
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.
Count your blessings.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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 ?
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Strike while the iron is hot.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.