Inspirational Quotes
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Anything is possible.
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.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
No one became poor by giving alms.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
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.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Live your life and forget your age.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.