Inspirational Quotes
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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 greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Seize the day.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I think therefore I am
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
They are able because they think they are able.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.