Inspirational Quotes
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Roll with the punches.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Success leaves clues.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
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.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
For with god all things are possible.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Nature does nothing uselessly.