Inspirational Quotes
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
He who has hope has everything.
They are able because they think they are able.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The buck stops here.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
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.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
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.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Don't quit.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
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
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
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.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.