Inspirational Quotes
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Ideas... they have the power
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Success is a journey not a destination.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Carpe diem.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
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.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The past does not equal the future.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
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.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Truth fears no questions.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
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.
Do it now !
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Our intentions create our reality.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Success is the child of audacity.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.