Inspirational Quotes
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
I think therefore I am
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Experience is the best teacher.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Live with passion !
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
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.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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 royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.